The group decided unanimously on Tuesday to support India in next year's contest for the Asia seat to succeed Indonesia on the Security Council in 2021 for a two-year term. India will be returning to the Council after nine years.
Thanking the countries which endorsed India's candidature, India's UN Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: "A unanimous step. Asia-Pacific Group @UN unanimously endorses India's candidature for a non-permanent seat of the Security Council for a 2-year term in 2021-22."
India has served seven times on the Council, most recently from 2011 to 2012 when Hardeep Puri was India's Permanent Representative. He is now a Minister in the Narendra Modi government with industry, commerce and civil aviation portfolios.
India is also pursuing a permanent seat on the Council as part of the effort to reform it.
The ten non-permanent seats are distributed regionally, with Asia-Pacific getting two of them. In most cases, there is no contest for the regional seats if the group has unanimously endorsed a candidate, although upstarts sometime crop up.
Usually, countries start lobbying openly for the seat years ahead, but that India did not have to in order to get the group's endorsement is a measure of New Delhi's influence.
Vietnam, which was elected last year will serve with India for a year on the Council.
(Arul Louis can be reached at arul.l@.in and followed on Twitter @arulouis)
( With inputs from IANS )