India Not Sitting UNSC Permanent Member 'Not Good' For The Global Body, Says EAM Jaishankar

New York (PTI) India not sitting as a permanent member of the UN Security Council is 'not good for us” only but also not good for the global body and its transformation is “overdue”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Wednesday.“I was serious when I said I'm working on it,” Jaishankar saidHe was responding to a question on how long it will take for India to become a permanent member of the UN Security CouncilJaishankar was in a conversation with Columbia University Professor and Former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya at the Raj Centre at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.“It’s obviously a very hard task because at the end of the day, if you say what is a definition of our global order. The five permanent members are a very crucial definition of what the global order is about. So it's a very fundamental, very deep transformation that we are seeking.“We believe that transformation is overdue, because the UN is a product that was devised eighty years ago. And 80 years ago by any standards of human creativity is a long time ago. The number of independent countries have quadrupled in that period,” Jaishankar said, adding that there are big parts of the world which are left out.He said within a few years, India will be the third largest economy in the world, it will be the most populous society in the world.“To have such a country not there in the key global councils, obviously, it's not good for us, but I would also urge it's not good for the global Council in question,” Jaishankar said.“I do believe that with each passing year, I sense in the world a greater and greater support for India to be there because we do command today the confidence and trust of very large parts of the world. I do not want to compare it with the current P5. But I would at least say a lot of countries perhaps think that we speak for them with a high degree of empathy and accuracy,” he said.