Do not want lectures on democracy: Envoy Kamboj as India assumes UNSC presidency

India doesn't have to be instructed what to do on democracy, the nation's Everlasting Consultant to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj has asserted. India on Thursday assumed Presidency of the 15-nation UN Safety Council for the month of December, which it's going to host signature occasions on countering terrorism and reformed multilateralism. The Presidency will deliver the curtains down on India's two-year tenure as elected non-permanent member of the highly effective UN organ.

Kamboj, India's first lady Everlasting Consultant to the UN, will sit within the President’s seat on the horse-shoe desk. On the primary day of India's presidency, she addressed reporters within the UN headquarters on the month-to-month programme of labor.

Responding to a query on democracy and freedom of press in India, she stated "we do not have to be instructed what to do on democracy."

"India is probably probably the most historical civilization on this planet as all of you recognize. In India, democracy had roots going again to 2500 years, we had been at all times a democracy. Coming all the way down to very latest instances, we've got all of the pillars of democracy which can be intact - legislature, govt, judiciary and the fourth property

, the press. And a really vibrant social media. So the nation is the world's largest democracy," she stated. "Each 5 years we conduct the world's largest democratic train. Everyone seems to be free to say as they want and please and that's how our nation features. It is quickly reforming, reworking and altering. And the trajectory has been very spectacular. And I haven't got to say this, you do not have to hearken to me. saying this," Kamboj stated.