No advisors required for Home dept: CM
Bengaluru, May 31: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Home department would not require any advisors as the police department has honest and efficient officers.
After holding a meeting with the police officers at Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday, the CM said that the police officers would work efficiently and he has directed the higher ups to give free hand to subordinates to work efficiently. Police department officers and staff should work as a family to develop the credibility. It should not work on the basis of any caste, he said.
He would discuss with the Congress leaders on appointing advisors in some sensitive departments and take a decision, he said blasting at Kempaiah who was the Home Department advisor indirectly.
Clear picture on cabinet expansion and formation of the coordination committee of the JDS-Congress coalition would be finalized on June 1. Leaders of both the parties would have a joint press conference over this issue, he said.
Congress incharge in Karnataka would visit Bengaluru tomorrow. He and JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda would discuss with him on finalizing the portfolios and coordination committee. In view of the coalition government between JDS and Congress, discussions and meetings are necessary. It is common that many people wanted to become ministers. But there is no confusion among Congress and JDS leadership. Decision on expansion of the cabinet would be taken tomorrow, he said.
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We need to recognise we have problem with Security Council: UN SG Guterres
United Nations (PTI): In a sharp critique, UN chief Antonio Guterres said there is a need to recognise “we have a problem with the Security Council”, which does not reflect the current world and is not allowed to stop conflicts because of the use of veto by its permanent members.
“I think we need to recognise that we have a problem with the Security Council. The Security Council today no longer represents the world as the world exists. It represents the world after 1945,” Guterres said at a press conference in Beirut on Saturday in response to a question.
He pointed out that three permanent members of the 15-nation Council are from Europe, one from Asia, and one is the United States, while there are no permanent members from Africa or Latin America.
Even from Asia, that “obviously is a continent with an enormous weight in global population and global wealth”, there is just one permanent member - China.
“And so, the Council has a problem of legitimacy and a problem of efficiency because of the vetoes. And what we have witnessed is that time and time again, when we have situations of conflict and when it's necessary to stop the conflict, there is a veto that emerges, and that does not allow the Security Council to act. That, unfortunately, is something that we are witnessing time and time again, and I am not hoping that in the short term, things will change,” he said.
The Council is made up of five veto-wielding permanent members, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, while 10 non-permanent members are elected to serve two-year terms at the horseshoe table and do not have veto powers.
India has been at the forefront of decades-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.
India has underscored that it rightly deserves to sit as a permanent member in the Security Council.
India last sat at the UN high table as a non-permanent member in 2021-22. A polarised Security Council has failed to deal with current peace and security challenges, with Council members sharply divided on conflicts such as the Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the latest US-Israel war against Iran.
