India will promote fundamental values like human rights and development and reinforce multilateralism while underlining the need for greater cooperation in the UN Security Council, India’s envoy to the United Nations has said as the country begins its two-year tenure in the powerful organ of the world body on Friday.

Starting January 1, India will sit in the fifteen-nation UNSC for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member - the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the powerful horseshoe table.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said,  "As the largest democracy…we will be promoting very fundamental values like democracy, human rights and development." India’s message will also be to ensure "how do we let diversity flourish in a united framework, which is in many ways the United Nations itself. This is something which India as a country, as what it stands for, will take to the council. India will also underscore the importance of respect for rule of law and international law.

Tirumurti added India will "definitely" emphasize a greater need for cooperation in the council, which should not be a place where because of any paralysis of decision making, urgent requirements do not get properly focused. "We would like to have a more cooperative structure in which we genuinely lookout and find solutions and go beyond the rhetoric," the envoy said.

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