• Dr. Komal Audichya

The Security Council has been recognized as the world’s most powerful institution. Since Article 1 of the Charter makes it clear that the UN’s primary goal is to maintain international peace and security and in order to build genuine, lasting peace, it also establishes a range of initiatives which must be followed simultaneously. With Syria crisis entering eighth year, the Security Council is now being accused of slackening its pace, not taking important decisions and reducing the scope of its role on issues, significant to international peace and security. It is losing its credibility of being a custodian of world peace as it failed to act swiftly and effectively to suppress international terrorism, a threat to international peace and security, albeit having power and mechanism to contain them. The record of the Security Council, in taking decisions, is marked more by repeated failures to reach agreement on how to deal effectively with this threat to peace and security. The primary reason for this has been the refusal of one or the other Permanent Members to put separately their own interests. Vetoing U.N. action on the state, clearly violating international law and practice but that state is an ally, should not be accepted in practical political reality. This position of using veto to facilitate a particular state is the most significant example of abuse of permanent privilege. Thus researcher is of opinion that the decision-making procedure itself along with membership should be discussed, in order to ascertain the issues related which are skewing the efforts of Security Council to combat international terrorism.

Security Council, combat, international terrorism, veto power, membership.

"REFORMING THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN 21st CENTURY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.206-223, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905O33.pdf

"REFORMING THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN 21st CENTURY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp206-223, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905O33.pdf