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<keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> would have to wait longer now for securing a permanent seat in an expanded <keyword id="55859" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="UN-Security-Council">UN Security Council</keyword> as the US along with Russia and China has opposed reformation of the powerful UN body, refusing to contribute to a text that will form the basis for the long-drawn reform process. <keyword id="107187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="UN-General-Assembly">UN General Assembly</keyword> President <keyword id="13318" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sam-Kutesa">Sam Kutesa</keyword> contributed a text to UN members that will form the basis for the negotiations on the reform of the Security Council. Kutesa had appointed Jamaica's Permanent Representative <keyword id="2997880" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Courtenay-Rattray">Courtenay Rattray</keyword> to chair on his behalf the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform. 

	Kutesa, in a letter dated July 31 to all UN members, said he is also circulating letters containing the positions of groups and Member States that indicated they did not wish their proposals to be included in the body of the negotiating text. These countries include US, Russia and China.
 American Ambassador to the UN <keyword id="1697895" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Samantha-Power">Samantha Power</keyword> said in her letter to Kutesa that the US is "open in principle" to a "modest" expansion of both permanent and non-permanent members but the condition that "any consideration of an expansion of permanent members must take into account the ability and willingness of countries to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the United Nations." 

	Power added that "we believe that consideration of new permanent members must be country-specific in nature."
 

	She also reiterated that the US remains opposed to "any alteration or expansion of the veto".
 Sources told PTI that the US opposition to aspects of the reform process can be perceived as”duplicity" since President <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword> has reaffirmed his support for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a permanent member. 

	Russia, which has also supported India's candidacy as permanent member, said in its letter to Kutesa that the "prerogatives of the current Permanent Members of the Security Council, including the use of the veto, should remain intact under any variant of the Council reform".
 

	"The intergovernmental negotiations on the UN Security Council reform should proceed in a calm, transparent and inclusive atmosphere free from artificial deadlines," it said.
 

	India has maintained that the process to expand the powerful UN body "cannot be seen to be an exercise ad infinitum" and a results-based timeline is crucial to achieve a concrete outcome.
 

	"Those who ask for not imposing artificial timelines may be advised to desist from inflicting artificial delays on this process," India's Ambassador to the UN Asoke Kumar Mukerji had said in the past.
 

	Sources said that India feels that the 70th anniversary of the UN, being commemorated this year, is an appropriate milestone to propel the reform process, which should be completed within the next one year.
 

	Russia said that in the situation when positions of the main groups of states - those who support the idea of the UN Security Council's expansion in both categories and those who do not - remain polar, one can advance in the negotiating process only by searching for a compromise.
 

	It said that while it supports broader representation of the developing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America on a reformed Security Council, it is important to maintain compact composition of the Council in order for it to provide an adequate and prompt reaction to new challenges.
 

	"The number of members in an enlarged UNSC should not exceed a reasonable level of low twenties," it added.
 

	On improvement of the working methods of the Security Council, Russia said the leading role in this process should belong to the Security Council itself as the "only legitimate master of its own procedures and working methods."
 

	China said UNSC reform is "multifaceted", covering not only issues such as enlarging the Council's membership and strengthening representation, but also increasing efficiency and improving working methods. It added that Member States are still seriously divided on the Security Council reform and no general agreement has been reached on any solution so far.
 

	UNSC "reform should not be carried out at the expense of the unity of Member States. All member States should remain committed to the intergovernmental negotiations process, adopt a flexible and pragmatic attitude, gradually build mutual trust and meet each other halfway.
 

	No solution on which Member States are seriously divided or approach that may cause division among Member States will have China's Support," it said.
 

	"Member states still need to engage in patient consultations to find a solution that accommodates each other's interests and concerns," it said, a position different from that of India which has stressed that the 2015 "is a year for decisive action" and for it, another round of the IGN with business like the earlier rounds would "not be acceptable."
 

	India has said it would then find it very difficult to meaningfully engage with the process.
 

	China also stressed that new seats of the Security Council should be reasonably distributed. It also noted that any solution or reform model should enjoy general consensus.
 

	"The five clusters of key issues concerning Security Council reform are interrelated, and should not be addressed in isolation of each other. It is imperative to stick to the approach of a package solution. The 'piecemeal' or 'step-by-step' approach is not conducive to accommodating the interests and concerns of Member States," China said.
 

	India has received support from France and the UK, the two remaining permanent members of Security Council. The two nations along with Kazakhstan and Romania have specifically named in the negotiating text Brazil, Germany, India, Japan and an African representation to be included among the permanent members of a reformed UNSC.

	 
	 
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India’s wait to secure a permanent seat in UN Security Council becomes longer

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesNational security adviser John Bolton and President Donald Trump</div></div></div><ul><li>Top national security official Nadia Schadlow resigned on Wednesday, just two days after John Bolton took over as the president's third national security adviser. </li><li>Schadlow is the third senior national security official to leave the administration this week following Bolton's arrival - and she will likely not be the last. </li><li>Bolton, a controversial foreign-policy hawk, likely would have not seen eye-to-eye with Schadlow, who emphasized the importance of soft power and diplomacy in US interventions abroad.</li></ul>Top national security official Nadia Schadlow resigned on Wednesday, just two days after John Bolton took over as the president's third national security adviser. Schadlow is the third senior national security official to leave the administration this week following Bolton's arrival. The National Security Council's chief spokesperson Michael Anton resigned on Sunday after learning he would be fired, and on Tuesday, Bolton <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-bossert-fired-homeland-security-adviser-2018-4">unexpectedly pushed out</a> top homeland security adviser Tom Bossert. While Bolton, a controversial foreign-policy hawk and former ambassador to the United Nations, is reportedly putting together a new team, the White House hasn't yet announced any replacements for the outgoing officials. Schadlow was promoted to deputy national security adviser for strategy in January following the departure of Dina Powell, a former NSC official and Goldman Sachs executive, and was a key author of the president's National Security Strategy document, which laid out Trump's national security goals and approach.She was a trusted confidante of former national security adviser H.R. McMaster and a respected member of the NSC who <a href="https://www.axios.com/meet-nadia-schadlow-dina-powells-successor-1512760179-14c3a294-d447-4f7e-93ca-4e4f317a1347.html">emphasized the importance of diplomacy and soft power</a> in US interventions abroad.A senior White House official told CNN that, after speaking with Bolton on Tuesday, Schadlow chose to resign "to allow him to build his own NSC leadership team."While Schadlow's departure was widely expected following McMaster's departure last month, it's unclear how many more top officials will be forced out.Bolton is reviewing the resumes of the NSC's top staffers and there will likely be more turnover, <a href="https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/984142308290584579">CNN reported</a> Wednesday. The NSC's human resources department has reportedly asked high-level staffers to submit their resumes if they're not already in the system."The administration thanks Dr. Schadlow for her service and leadership in crafting the President's 'America First' national security strategy," White House spokesman Raj Shah said in a statement. "The strategy has set a strong foundation going forward for protecting the homeland, promoting American prosperity, preserving peace through strength and advancing American influence. We wish Nadia and her family the best." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-secret-deal-planned-parenthood-cecile-richards-make-trouble-2018-4">Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump tried to cut a secret deal with Planned Parenthood - here's what happened</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

John Bolton is cleaning house at the National Security Council

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">REUTERS/David MdzinarishviliMilitary personnel stand next to an armoured personnel carrier (APC) in the Crimean port city of Feodosiya March 2, 2014. Ukraine mobilised on Sunday for war and called up its reserves, after Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to invade in the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. </div></div></div>The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Monday on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 3:30 p.m. ET.
From <a href="http://bnowire.com/inbox/?id=2214" target="_blank">U.N. headquarters</a>:
The President of the Security Council wishes to inform the members of the Council that a public meeting in connection with the agenda item "Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136)" will be convened today at 3.30 p.m. 
Russia has reportedly requested the meeting.
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-gives-ukrainian-forces-in-crimea-ultimatum-to-surrender-2014-3" target="_blank">Russia's Black Sea Fleet has reportedly given Ukrainian forces</a> in Crimea an ultimatum to surrender by midnight ET on Tuesday or face a military assault.

UN Security Council To Hold Emergency Meeting On Ukraine 

India is going to host a "very substantive and significant" summit meeting of the G-4 nations – Japan, India, Germany and Brazil. G4 nations want expansion of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=UN+Security+Council+">UN Security Council</a> and permanent seats for themselves. 
 The aim will be to push for early <keyword id="55859" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="UN-Security-Council">UN Security Council</keyword> reforms amid the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=UN+General+Assembly+">UN General Assembly</a> adopting a decision to commence text-based negotiations on the long-pending reforms. 
 While interacting with reports, External Affairs spokesperson <keyword id="32893" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="vikas-swarup">Vikas Swarup</keyword> said: "The G-4 summit is a very important engagement." 
 
The summit on September 26 will be the first since 2004 and will bring together <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=German+Chancellor+Angela+Merkel">German Chancellor Angela Merkel</a>, Brazilian President <keyword id="440692" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dilma-Rousseff">Dilma Rousseff</keyword> and Japanese Prime Minister <keyword id="590894" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shinzo-Abe">Shinzo Abe</keyword>. 
 
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Asoke Mukerji said the summit has "come together as an event" only after the September 14 consensus adoption by the UNGA of a negotiating document and the decision to commence text-based negotiations. 
 
The high-level summit "conveys its own message that the G-4 nations can play a role in galvanizing broad based support for the outcome of the negotiations which will start in November this year," Mukerji said. 
 
"We regard this very substantive and very significant especially in the light of the fact that the UNGA recently passed a decision calling for text-based negotiations and presenting a text on the basis of which the negotiations on the Inter-governmental format can take place," he said. 
 
Mukerji said the main focus of the summit is to "build" on the UNGA's adoption of a negotiating text on UNSC reforms. 
 
"The leaders will decide during that meeting on the way forward," Mukerji said, adding that an outcome is expected. 
 
Sounding an "optimistic" note, Mukerji said he assumes that the process of negotiations should conclude "as the Prime Minister has called for" with a concrete outcome on the reforms by the end of the 70th UNGA session next September. 
 
He said that the speed at which the process moves forward will depend on the UN member states but "our effort will be that by the end of the 70th session in September 2016, the final text should be tabled in the Assembly for adoption. 
 
On the US support to India, Swarup said while there are various templates for UNSC reform, the end product with India as a permanent member has Washington's "unwavering" support. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/US-to-PM-Modi-Welcome-back-This-will-be-an-epic-trip-to-remember/articleshow/49086392.cms">Prime Minister Modi</a> is also expected to seek enhanced role for peacekeeping contributing countries like India in the UN's decision making process on its peacekeeping operations. 
 Modi is likely to make a statement on September 28 at UN Peacekeeping Summit convened by President <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword> here. 
 
India has been the single largest contributors of troops to UN peacekeeping operations. This year India will pass 185,000 cumulatively rotated through UN system, he said. 
 
The Peacekeeping Summit will also be attended by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+PM+Nawaz+Sharif">Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif</a>. The summit will provide a forum for the leaders of India and Pakistan to come face-to-face. 
 
(Image: Indiatimes)

Will India secure a permanent seat in UN Security Council? Keep a watch on G-4 summit!

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>President Donald Trump's chief strategist will no longer sit on the National Security Council.The White House <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-07064.pdf">announced in a presidential memorandum</a> dated April 4 that Trump was reorganizing the NSC and Steve Bannon would no longer be on it. Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-05/bannon-removed-from-national-security-council-role-in-shakeup">first reported the news</a>."As President, my highest priority is to ensure the safety and security of the American people," the memo said.Trump also downgraded the role of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert, according to Bloomberg. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are back to being "regular attendees" of the NSC's principals committee, the interagency forum that deals with policy issues affecting national security.The moves come months after Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and">signed a presidential memorandum</a> that removed some of the nation's top military and intelligence advisers as regular attendees of the NSC's principals committee and elevated Bannon to becoming a regular attendee.A senior White House source <a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/849649304507740160">told journalists</a> that Bannon was only put on the NSC as a check on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and that he only ever attended one meeting. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-sean-spicer-spar-reporters-trump-wiretap-claims-senate-intelligence-committee-2017-3">'CALM DOWN': Watch Sean Spicer spar with reporters over Trump's wiretap claims</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="F5eXdjYTE6R9LBBAkvtxZY-5FGKyQIaF" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Steve Bannon has been removed from the National Security Council

As Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an attack on <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>, his ambassador to the <keyword id="11896449" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="united-nations" source="Orion">United Nations</keyword> was in charge of the UN Security Council meeting late Wednesday night. As the Security Council discussed ways to avoid a war, Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-announces-military-assault-against-ukraine-in-surprise-speech-2022-2">announced a military offensive</a> against Ukraine in a video that aired early on Thursday morning in <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>.Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia faced off with Ukraine's UN ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, in a tense exchange amid the emergency meeting in New York. "It was about 48 minutes ago your president declared the war on Ukraine," Kyslytsya said to Nebenzia. "So now I would like to ask the ambassador of the Russian federation to say on the record that at this very moment your troops do not shell and bomb Ukrainian cities, that your troops do not move into territory of Ukraine.Kyslytsya demanded Nebenzia call Russian leaders to confirm an attack wasn't taking place amid reports by Ukrainian authorities and media outlets that explosions were heard outside numerous cities.Kyslytsya added that Nebenzia should give up control of the Security Council, and pass the responsibility on to a "legitimate member of the security council, a member that is respectful of the charter." Nebenzia allowed other diplomats from members of the council, including the US, UK, Germany, and France, to comment. All denounced Russia's actions.Ukraine's representative later ripped into the Russian diplomat, warning him that war criminals <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-rips-russia-un-war-criminals-go-straight-to-hell-2022-2">"go straight to hell."</a> Nebenzia then adjourned the meeting.Nebenzia's tenure as Security Council president is a <a href="https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/presidency">one-month stint</a> that ends in March when the United Arab Emirates will take over. The presidency of the council rotates between nations.

Russia's diplomat was in charge of the UN Security Council meeting as Putin announced an invasion of Ukraine

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11631702" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="zelenskyy" source="Orion">Zelenskyy</keyword> called for the <keyword id="11896449" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="united-nations" source="Orion">United Nations</keyword> Security Council to remove <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> or "dissolve" itself.</li><li>"We must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generation an effective UN," he said.</li></ul>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy railed against the United Nations' ineffectiveness to stop Russia's ongoing war in a speech to the Security Council on Tuesday. Zelenskyy told the UN Security Council (UNSC) that he sees two options for the group following the discovery of mass civilian killings in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha: punish Russia or dissolve itself.The Ukrainian leader urged the UNSC to remove Russia, which is a permanent member of the council, "as an aggressor and a source of war so it cannot block decisions about its own aggression."Or, he said, the UN's security body can "dissolve" and reform entirely. "If there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether," Zelenskyy said.Zelenskyy spoke to the council days after hundreds of Ukrainian civilians were found killed in Bucha after Russian forces retreated from the Kyiv region. Many corpses were found in partially excavated mass graves while others were found lying in the streets, according to media reports.Zelenskyy used his speech on Tuesday to call for a reform of the world's security system.In order to help guarantee peace moving forward, Zelenskyy said, "We must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generation an effective UN with the ability to respond preventively to security challenges."Russia is one of five permanent members on the UNSC, joined by the four other victors of World War II — the US, UK, China, and France. All of the permanent members have veto power. Shortly after launching its full-scale invasion of <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword> in late February, Russia vetoed a resolution condemning its unprovoked war and calling for the immediate removal of its troops.Experts have said Russia's disregard for <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international" source="Orion">international</keyword> norms has threatened to crumble the global system that was built post-World War II and designed to prevent future conflicts. Zelenskyy echoed these sentiments in his impassioned remarks to the UNSC on Tuesday."We're dealing with a state that's turning the veto [of] the UN Security Council into the right to die. This undermines the whole architecture of global security and allows them to go unpunished," Zelenskyy said. "They're destroying everything that they can."Zelenskyy accused the UN of effectively ignoring past instances of Russian aggression, including the 2008 invasion of Georgia and 2014 annexation of Crimea.The Ukrainian president said Russia's actions in Ukraine were "no different" from atrocities committed by terror groups like ISIS, showing the UNSC harrowing footage of dead Ukrainians. The video ended with the word "Stop Russian Aggression." Zelenskyy said if Russia is able to continue its aggression in Ukraine unchecked then it will signal to countries that they must rely "only on the power their own arms to ensure their security and not on international law.""Are you ready to close the UN? Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately...The UN system must be reformed immediately," Zelenskyy went on to say.

Zelenskyy tells the United Nations Security Council to punish Russia or 'dissolve yourself altogether'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomson ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu looks on as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem </div></div></div>Israel's Foreign Ministry <a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/813469066631512066">has reportedly suspended</a> all working ties with 12 of the UN Security Council countries that voted to pass a resolution urging Israel to halt building settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The move came at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request, one day <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-israel-angered-by-anti-settlement-un-vote-summons-foreign-ambassadors-2016-12">after he summoned</a> 10 of the nations' ambassadors to Jerusalem to personally reprimand them for the vote. Foreign ministers and ambassadors from Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand will not be received at Israel's Foreign Ministry amid the suspension, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-curtial-working-ties-with-security-council-nations/">the Times of Israel reported</a>. They will also not be granted an audience with Netanyahu.The US abstained from the unexpected UN vote on Friday, which has increased <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-netanyahu-usnc-vote-israel-palestine-2016-12">further increased tensions</a> between Netanyahu and President Obama stemming from the US-led nuclear negotiations with Iran and Obama's longstanding opposition to Israel's settlement policy.Netanyahu called the US' refusal to veto the resolution "shameful" and "underhanded," and on Sunday held a public cabinet meeting where he accused Obama of conspiring with Palestine to craft the resolution and bring it to a vote at the UN."According to our information, we have no doubt the Obama administration initiated it (the resolution), stood behind it, coordinated the wording and demanded it be passed," Netanyahu said.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">ReutersUS Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power.</div></div></div>The White House has denied that allegation, reiterating that it allowed the resolution to pass - instead of wielding its veto power - because it is concerned that Israel's settlement construction in territory occupied by Palestinians is not conducive to negotiations over a two-state solution.Explaining her decision to abstain from the vote, the US' ambassador to the UN Samantha Power <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-netanyahu-usnc-vote-israel-palestine-2016-12">said the</a> "US has been sending the message that the settlements must stop, privately and publicly, for five decades," and that allowing its passage "is in line with bipartisan US policy." She added that the US is still committed to Israel's security and working toward a two-state solution with Palestine.Palestinians say the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be part of their future state, but nearly 600,000 Israelis have settled there in what the Palestinians say is an illegal occupation of their territory.The last time the 15-member UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Israeli settlements was 36 years ago. The chamber broke into spontaneous applause after the resolution was passed, with 14 members voting "yes" and only the US abstaining.The resolution "condemned all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character, and status of the Palestinian territory, occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem," and requested the UN secretary-general "to report to the council every three months on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution.""Over decades American administrations and Israeli governments disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the security council was not the place to resolve this issue," Netanyahu said during his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday."We knew that going there would make negotiations harder and drive peace farther away. As I told John Kerry on Thursday, 'Friends don't take friends to the Security Council.'" <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-unhealthy-diet-exercise-politics-2016-12">Everything we know about Donald Trump's unhealthy diet</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dqeTNtNjE6LhOTMusLmcnl5XfnVrBKkb" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Israel has reportedly suspended ties with 12 UN Security Council nations

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty Images</div></div></div>President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and">signed a presidential memorandum Saturday</a> that removed the nation's top military and intelligence advisers as regular attendees of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, the interagency forum that deals with policy issues affecting national security.The executive measure established Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon as a regular attendee, whereas the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence will be allowed to participate only "where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed.""This is unusual," John Bellinger, an adjunct senior fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations and former legal adviser to the National Security Council, wrote on Saturday."In the Bush administration, Karl Rove would not attend NSC meetings," Bellinger said. "<a href="http://www.whitehousetransitionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LBJ_National_Security_Forum_National_Security_Council_9-23-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to former Chief of Staff Josh Bolten</a>, President Bush did not want to appear, especially to the military, to insert domestic <keyword id="6358883" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Politics">politics</keyword> into national security decision-making."With his permanent seat at the NSC meetings, Bannon has been elevated above the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, who was not offered an open invitation."The CIA Director is typically invited to NSC and Principals Committee meetings," Bellinger said, though he added that President Barack Obama's list of invitees to such meetings did not include the CIA director.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">AP Photo/Gerald HerbertTrump's executive order on Saturday established Steve Bannon as a regular member of the National Security Council's Principals Committee.</div></div></div>CNN national security correspondent Jim Sciutto noted on Sunday that the move was "certainly unprecedented.""You're putting in someone who is not Senate confirmed and taking out the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence, who need to be Senate confirmed," Sciutto told CNN's Jake Tapper. "It raises questions about whose voices will be most prominent about key national-security decisions in the country."Former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/825717265446342660">told ABC on Sunday morning</a> that sidelining the DNI and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was "a big mistake.""Adding people to the NSC never really bothers me," Gates said, referring to Bannon's new role on the committee. "My biggest concern is that, under law, there are only two statutory advisers to the National Security Council - the DNI, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.""Pushing them out," Gates said, is "a big mistake. They both bring perspective, judgment, and experience to bear that every president - whether they like it or not - finds useful."<h2>A 'shadow National Security Council'</h2>The Washington Post's Josh Rogin <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/19/inside-trumps-shadow-national-security-council/?postshare=6261484950164515&amp;tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.d8e46c500df3">reported</a> before Trump was sworn in that Bannon, Jared Kushner, and Reince Priebus comprised an informal "shadow national security council" that "sits atop the Trump transition team's executive committee and has the final say on national-security personnel appointments."Jared Kushner is Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. Priebus is Trump's chief of staff."Bannon has been working on the long-term strategic vision that will shape the Trump administration's overall foreign policy approach," Rogin <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/19/inside-trumps-shadow-national-security-council/?postshare=6261484950164515&amp;tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.d8e46c500df3">reported, citing transition officials.</a>He "is committed to working on the buildup of the military and is also interested in connecting the Trump apparatus to leaders of populist movements around the world, especially in Europe."Prior to joining the Trump campaign, Bannon was the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-steve-bannon-2016-11">CEO of the far-right website Breitbart News</a> - a website known for its antiestablishment, white-nationalist positions on issues such as immigration and trade. A week into his presidency, Trump has already prioritized a number of agenda items that reflect Bannon's own nationalist views, including a border wall and a crackdown on immigration and refugee admissions. He also <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/opposition-party-media-trump-steve-bannon-cbn-brody-file-2017-1">echoed</a> Bannon's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-media-opposition-party-2017-1">claim that "the media is the opposition party.</a>"<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Mary Altaffer/APDonald Trump is joined by his daughter Tiffany, left, and son-in-law Jared Kushner as he speaks during a <keyword id="6355005" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="News">news</keyword> conference at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester, Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.</div></div></div>The committee will be chaired by former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, and Tom Bossert, Trump's homeland security adviser. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Trump's secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, have seats on the committee, but they "begin at a disadvantage," Rogin said.They will be "fighting for influence in a team of strong personalities who are busily carving up issues, making plans and nurturing already close relationships" with Trump, Rogin wrote, referring to Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.The secretary of energy and director of the Office of Management and Budget <a href="https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/825515497630334976">were also removed</a> from the committee's list of "regular members," and the deputy secretary of state will no longer be invited to every committee meeting. The chair of the Council of Economic Advisers will not be invited even "when issues to be discussed pertain to their responsibilities and expertise."<h2>Unilateral moves</h2>Trump already seems to be marginalizing the influence of career officials with extensive federal experience at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Justice Department.On Saturday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GKL6i38pI&amp;sns=tw">told Fox</a>that he helped draft Trump's "extreme vetting" executive order after Trump called him and asked <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-trump-asked-me-how-to-do-a-muslim-ban-legally-2017-1">how to do a "Muslim ban" "legally."</a>Officials told CNN that the order was a unilateral move.Department of Homeland Security staff, the officials said, were only allowed to see the order barring refugees from the US after Trump signed it, and National Security Council lawyers were <a href="https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/825514236784832512" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">prevented</a> from evaluating it. The State Department and the DoD were also excluded from the process, <a href="https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/825448574028804096">NBC reported</a>.After seeing the order, the DHS interpreted it to mean that green card holders from the banned countries - who have already been subjected to intense vetting - would be allowed to reenter the US from trips abroad. But that interpretation was overruled by the White House, which later said that green card holders would be allowed in only on a "case-by-case" basis.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters</div></div></div>"The policy team at the White House developed the executive order on refugees and visas," <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/donald-trump-travel-ban/">CNN reported</a>, "and largely avoided the traditional interagency process that would have allowed the Justice Department and homeland security agencies to provide operational guidance."As a result, the order was imprecise and open to interpretation - and legal challenges.The order "looks like what an intern came up with over a lunch hour," an immigration lawyer <a href="https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas">told </a><a href="https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas">Benjamin Wittes,</a> the editor-in-chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. "My take is that it is so poorly written that it's hard to tell the impact.""The president has created a target-rich environment for litigation" with the order," Wittes <a href="https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas">wrote</a>.Lawyers and civil-rights organizations were already challenging the constitutionality of the ban hours after it was signed, arguing that the ban violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by "explicitly disapproving of one religion and implicitly preferring others."Lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees who were detained at John F. Kennedy airport in New York <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iraqi-refugees-who-worked-for-usg-denied-entry-over-trump-refugee-ban-2017-1">filed legal challenges</a> to the order, and a federal judge in Brooklyn issued <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-federal-judge-issued-a-stay-on-trumps-executive-order-immigration-ban-2017-1">an emergency ruling</a> Saturday evening to stay the continued deportation of travelers.The ruling, a temporary emergency stay, now allows those who landed in the US and hold a valid visa to remain. Federal judges in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Washington also made emergency rulings on various aspects of the executive order. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-border-wall-visualized-25-billion-dollars-impractical-2017-1">Mexican architects visualized Trump's proposed $25 billion wall to show how unrealistic it would be</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="t2Mmg3OTE6P_p1yX2-EX0QdQGBJNqYFc" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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