New Delhi, India (AHN) – United States President Barack Obama, on the second day of his three-day visit to India, has appreciated New Delhi for its developments and vowed his nation’s support in the world’s largest democracy’s quest for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat.

In a landmark address at the Indian Parliament on Monday, Obama said that India had been an “indispensable” U.S. partner and the relationship between them would one of this century’s defining partnerships.

Obama told dignitaries, “As two global leaders, the United States and India can partner for global security – especially as India serves on the Security Council over the next two years. Indeed the just and sustainable international order that America seeks includes a U.N. that is efficient, effective, credible and legitimate.”

Despite Obama’s timeline, analysts do not expect India to get permanent seat so soon.

Pakistan quickly responded to Obama’s comments and said that Washington should not be swayed by “power politics”. Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Obama’s comments added complexity in the process of council reforms. “Pakistan hopes that the US will take a moral view and not base itself on any temporary expediency or exigencies of power politics,” he added.

The United States, China, Russia, France and Britain are the permanent five members of the Security Council presently. India, Japan, Brazil and Germany are keen on joining the group.

However, Obama said big authorities mean big responsibilities too and highlighted Myanmar’s human right abuse cases on which India had failed to do enough to condemn it.

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