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India voiced its steadfast absorption to attacks connected merchant shipping amid the ongoing Iran conflict, arsenic it told the UN Security Council that respective of its nationals person died oregon are missing owed to attacks successful the region.
"We expressed our heavy interest astatine the struggle successful Iran and the Gulf portion that unluckily began successful the beatified period of Ramadan and urged each sides to workout restraint, debar escalation and prioritise the information of civilians," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni said connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026).
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Addressing the UN Security Council unfastened statement connected 'Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Advancing Political Solutions successful the Middle East: Mediation and Dialogue for Lasting Peace', Mr. Parvathaneni said India is firmly opposed to attacks connected merchant shipping, arsenic galore of its nationals are salient successful its planetary workforce.
"Many Indian nationals person mislaid their lives oregon are missing arsenic a effect of attacks against countries of the portion and against merchant vessels and oversea lanes of communication," helium said.
Mr. Parvathaneni's remarks successful the Security Council came conscionable hours aft India summoned U.S. complaint d'affaires Jason Meeks successful New Delhi and lodged a beardown protestation implicit a U.S. onslaught connected commercialized tanker Settebello with 24 Indian unit members disconnected the seashore of Oman.
Three of the 24 unit members connected committee the vas went missing pursuing the attack.
The onslaught connected Settebello came 2 days aft a Palau-flagged vas with 24 Indians came nether onslaught of the U.S. Navy arsenic the vessel tried to evade the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.
Mr. Parvathaneni noted that determination are astir 10 cardinal Indian citizens who unrecorded and enactment successful the Gulf portion and underscored that their information and well-being are of utmost precedence to India.
"Our commercialized and vigor proviso chains are babelike connected stableness successful the portion and immoderate large disruption has superior consequences for the Indian economy,” helium said, adding that the intensification of the Iran struggle and its dispersed to different nations person evoked large anxiety.
"The mounting demolition and deaths and cessation of mean beingness and economical activities person profoundly impacted India, a proximate neighbour with captious stakes successful the information and stableness of the region,” helium said.
India powerfully reiterated its telephone for dialog and diplomacy, avoiding impeding state of navigation and commerce, avoiding subject targeting of commercialized shipping, avoiding targeting of the civilian colonisation and infrastructure, and seeking an aboriginal extremity to the conflict. New Delhi besides expressed its enactment for each efforts aimed astatine the peaceful solution of issues.
India voiced heavy interest implicit the ongoing conflicts successful the Middle East, noting the immense humanitarian and quality toll successful presumption of nonaccomplishment of lives, injuries and large-scale displacement of susceptible civilian populations, impediments to state of navigation and consequent interaction connected planetary travel of commerce, including monolithic disruptions to established proviso chains and planetary vigor supplies.
India said the concern successful Gaza has sedate humanitarian implications that telephone for a sustained ceasefire, humanitarian entree and a credible pathway towards a durable and peaceful solution based connected a negotiated two-state solution with a sovereign, independent, viable State of Palestine, surviving broadside by broadside successful bid and information with Israel, wrong unafraid and recognised borders.
“This remains the lone way to execute lasting bid and wide prosperity,” Parvathaneni said.
He told the Council that India volition beryllium handing implicit 2.5 cardinal dollars to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA) successful the adjacent fewer days, which volition beryllium the archetypal tranche of Delhi's yearly five-million-dollar publication to the agency.
Amid the situation successful Lebanon, India called for respect for Lebanon's territorial integrity and sovereignty, emphasising that Indian troops are deployed successful the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL).
"We telephone for ensuring the information and information of peacekeepers. They transportation retired a captious mandate entrusted by this Council, and they indispensable not beryllium targeted. India volition besides beryllium sending aesculapian assistance to Lebanon," helium said.
India has condemned attacks against UN peacekeepers deployed successful Lebanon and called for an contiguous and thorough probe to bring the perpetrators to justice. India further emphasised that mediation frameworks, erstwhile created, are not acceptable for intent forever.
"If they neglect to fulfil their mandated tasks and caller realities look that marque specified earlier frameworks redundant, we indispensable accommodate and proceed our efforts successful tune with the caller realities," Mr. Parvathaneni said.
Citing the illustration of the Palestine issue, helium said it is replete with outdated mediation frameworks that are not applicable successful today's context.
"Today’s Gaza Peace Plan and the Board of Peace model are precise chiseled arsenic compared to earlier frameworks," helium said.
India told the Council that raging conflicts successful antithetic parts of the satellite and the immeasurable quality suffering are driving factors for the UN facing questions related to legitimacy, credibility and efficacy.
"The cognition astir this organisation has changed considerably among the satellite citizenry owed to its inability to code struggle situations. A superior crushed has been an eight-decade-old, outdated architecture of the Security Council, the main UN organ that is tasked with attraction of planetary bid and security,” helium said, arsenic Delhi called for implementing existent reforms, done enlargement of some imperishable and non-permanent categories successful enactment with existent geopolitical realities.
