LD KRISHNA 2 LST

On India's bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security
Council, the Minister said India has always at every
multilateral form have been raising this issue.
"Not only UNSC but also other organizations need to
reflect the contemporary realities of the present world.
"A charter that was drafted in 1945 need---- so the
kind of world that we are dealing with today is totally
different that the founding fathers. There is overwhelming
support at the UN and at one point of time more than 130
countries supported India, Brazil. Now (we have) reached a
stage for discussion. Now I am looking forward to some more
movement when the GA session starts," he said.
He said the UN is conducting negotiations and hoped
that they would be fruitful.
On Export Control, Krishna said the issue was
discussed with officials.
"This is one of the important issues which the two
countries is facing and any satisfactory resolution of this
would let the two countries to move forward in mutual
cooperative endeavour," he said.
India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has had
discussions with US officials on this issue.
On Iran, Krishna said India hopes that the IAEA and
Tehran would come to an understanding to solve the stalemate
over Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
"India's position is very clear. We are against all
proliferation. I was in Iran just a few weeks back, had
discussions with the, our point of view duly conveyed to them.
"That every country that would like to use nuke
technology for peaceful purpose, has to have liberty but that
liberty has to have within the parameters of IAEA. We are
hoping that Iran and IAEA will come to some understanding,"
Krishna said. PTI LKJ
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