<P> According to a formal statement by 13th Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh at the General Debate of the 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly: </P> <P> It is common knowledge that the United Nations is often unable to exert an effective influence on global economic and political issues of critical importance . This is due to its what may be called as "democracy deficit", which prevents effective multilateralism, a multilateralism that is based on a democratically - evolved global consensus . Therefore, reform and restructuring of the United Nations system can alone provide a crucial link in an expanding chain of efforts to refashion international structures, imbuing them with a greater degree of participatory decision - making, so as to make them more representative of contemporary realities . The expansion of the Security Council, in the category of both permanent and non-permanent members, and the inclusion of countries like India as permanent members, would be a first step in the process of making the United Nations a truly representative body . </P> <P> According to a formal statement by 14th Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the General Debate of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly: </P> <P> We must reform the United Nations, including the Security Council, and make it more democratic and participative . Institutions that reflect the imperatives of 20th century won't be effective in the 21st . It would face the risk of irrelevance; and we will face the risk of continuing turbulence with no one capable of addressing it . </P>

India's permanent membership in un security council