The US should fully back India’s pursuit of permanent membership of the powerful UN Security Council, John McCain, the top Republican leader said, days after President Barack Obama described the issue as “very difficult and complicated”. The top Republican leader also came out strongly against efforts to “demonise” India as a destination of shipping US jobs, saying there was no “Indian plot to steal American jobs”.
“If we want India to join us in sharing the responsibilities for international peace and security, then the world’s largest democracy needs to have a seat at the high table of international politics,” Senator McCain said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “The US should fully back India’s pursuit of permanent membership on the UN Security Council,” he underlined yesterday at the Washington-based think tank. “We cannot allow our anxieties about globalisation to cause us to demonise India for crass political gain,” Mr McCain said. “Outsourcing is an inescapable feature of today’s global economy, not an Indian plot to steal American jobs, and we should not condone any unfair punishments of Indian workers,” Mr McCain said.