Eritrea backs India for UN Security Council seat
June 8th, 2011 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Hailing India’s re-emergence as a global power, Eritrea, a country of over five million people in the Horn of Africa, has backed New Delhi’s claim for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
In the first visit from an African country after the second India-Africa Forum Summit in Addis Ababa last month, Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh met Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur Tuesday and held discussions on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
He welcomed “India’s re-emergence as a major economic, political and technological power,” the external affairs ministry said here Wednesday.
“He also commended India’s institutionalized engagement with African partners through the consensual, consultative and responsive mechanism put in place under the rubric of the India-Africa Forum Summit,” the ministry said.
Saleh “offered unqualified support for India’s candidature for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council,” the ministry said.
At the summit in Addis Ababa, both India and the African Union declared support for each other’s aspirations in an expanded UN Security Council.
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