India has sacrificed is UN Security Council hopes in exchange of humiliating nuclear deal
Media Release
Sep. 28, 2008

Just over a week before Singh arrived in New York, the General Assembly ended a stalemate on Security Council expansion and took a landmark decision to begin "inter-governmental negotiations" on the issue by February 28, 2009. With such a clear deadline for the first time in 15 years, Singh should have been in |the thick of making out India's strong case for a seat |at the UN's high table ever more strong in his bilateral meetings here and in Washington this week.

Instead, as foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon admitted in his briefing for the Indian media after Singh's meeting with US President George W. Bush on Thursday, the Prime Minister did not even raise the issue with the US President. "The Prime Minister did not raise it this time, neither did President Bush," Menon said.

The US has been the biggest impediment to India's Security Council aspirations. Singh or his successor may regret that this important opportunity at the White House to at least make one attempt to change Washington's mind on this issue at a crucial point during the expansion talks was frittered away.

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