New York, March 25 -- India has called for consensus-driven reforms in UN peacekeeping, stressing the need for better funding, enhanced technology, and a greater role for troop-contributing countries, an official press release stated.

Addressing a UN Security Council debate on adapting peace operations to new realities, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish outlined India's vision for modernising peacekeeping in response to emerging threats. "UN Peacekeepers today have to contend with the presence of non-state actors, armed groups, terrorists, as well as trans-national criminal networks. Technological advancements have created new challenges in the form of mis-/dis-/mal-information and hate speech, ne...