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Akram

lines on the record: 1,374
first: 2002-06-13
most recent: 2023-12-20
sittings or episodes: 175
sources: un-security-council

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“Given the erga omnes character of the right of self-determination, it is also incumbent upon all States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment to the exercise of the right to self-determination by the Palestinian people is immediately eliminated. It is most regrettable that the Security Council has been unable to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in occupied Palestine. We urge the Council to fully and forcefully implement its own resolutions on the question of Palestine. The international community cannot accept the fait accompli Israel is seeking to impose with the design of perpetuating its forcible occupation and destroying Palestinian nationhood.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“The continuing expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the expulsion and evictions of Palestinians from their properties, and the changes to the demographic structure, historical and legal status and character of Al-Quds Al-Sharif are patently illegal and grave violations of Security Council resolutions and international law, including international humanitarian law. The rule of law can be upheld only if it is applied universally and consistently, without exceptions or double standards. It is time that Israel was held accountable for its grave human rights violations and crimes in occupied Palestine.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“The United Nations Special Rapporteurs emphasized that these attacks had: “no justification under international law. The impunity that Israel has enjoyed for its acts of violence over decades only fuels and intensifies the recurring cycle of violence”. The Special Rapporteurs called for “Israel to be held accountable under international law for its illegal occupation and violent acts to perpetuate it”. International law also unequivocally restricts Israel, the occupying Power, from seizing land and building settlements in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem. Security Council resolutions 476 (1980), 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016), inter alia, prohibit Israel from altering the demographic composition of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Pakistan commends the United Kingdom presidency for convening this timely debate on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Pakistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent raids, air strikes and large-scale military operations carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. They resulted in scores of civilian casualties and the destruction of significant civilian infrastructure. Unfortunately, the killing of children, women and men continues in occupied Palestine with complete impunity. On 5 July, three Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council stated that: “Israeli air strikes and ground operations in the occupied West Bank targeting the Jenin refugee camp and killing at least 12 Palestinians may prima facie constitute a war crime”.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Finally, the provision of timely assistance, health services, rehabilitation and reintegration in response to sexual violence in conflicts should be strengthened and adequately funded.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We would therefore urge the Secretary-General to rectify the report’s omissions, include information on the incidence of sexual violence in foreign-occupied Kashmir and Palestine and list India and Israel among the parties perpetrating conflict-related sexual violence in future reports to the Security Council. This open debate is a sombre reminder of the need to take decisive action. We would urge that all Council resolutions related to protracted conflicts be faithfully implemented. The implementation of efforts to deal with the issue should cover all four pillars of the women and peace and security agenda, and the gaps in oversight and investigation mechanisms should be addressed to end the culture of impunity.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Entire communities, women, girls and boys, have been prevented from enjoying their rights, including the right to freedom of expression and religion and to education and employment. That is corroborated by the two reports of 2018 and 2019 issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and by international media and human rights organizations. Since India’s unilateral and illegal measures of 5 August 2019, conflict-related violence and the harassment and humiliation of women and girls in Kashmir have increased significantly.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The report lists 49 parties, including State and non-State actors, responsible for such crimes. However, the report’s credibility is seriously undermined by what looks like a deliberate decision not to report the crimes of sexual violence being committed in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and in Israeli-occupied Palestine. There is ample documented evidence that Indian occupation forces have used rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war in occupied Kashmir since 1989. Thousands of women and girls have been raped, gang- raped or subjected to enforced incarceration, torture and abduction. The infamous Kunan Poshpora incident is raw in the memories of all Kashmiris. Thousands of women, girls, boys and men have been detained and subjected to sexual violence and torture as punishment and humiliation.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source
“At the outset, I would like to thank the United Kingdom presidency and in particular Lord Ahmad, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, for convening this open debate on such a vital aspect of international peace and security. We thank Special Representative Patten and the other briefers for the information they have provided today. Despite the Security Council’s efforts since the adoption of resolution 1820 (2008), there seems to be no end in sight for the growing number of victims of conflict- related sexual violence. The Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/413) has documented 2,455 cases of conflict-related sexual violence in 2022, and those represent only a small proportion of that underreported crime.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The singular focus should address situations of armed conflicts. In that context, my delegation wishes to state for the record that references to Pakistan in the Secretary-General’s report do not fall within the purview of the Special Representative’s mandate. However, despite our principled position, we will continue to engage with the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to further strengthen child protection in Pakistan, in line with our national framework and international obligations.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“As one of the earliest signatories to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan is fully alive to its responsibilities under the Convention. We have undertaken wide-ranging legal, policy and operational measures focusing on the protection of children in security situations. Earlier this year, Pakistan set up a national committee for the protection of children and designated a national focal person in this regard. We have also recently endorsed the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers. Pakistan supports the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to deal with situations of children in armed conflict. However, we believe that the legal parameters of the Special Representative’s mandate must be scrupulously respected.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The Secretary-General’s latest report has rightly urged India to implement measures, including prohibiting the use of lethal and non-lethal force on children, ending the use of pellet guns, preventing all forms of ill-treatment of children in detention and protecting children from sexual offences. We would also urge the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to demand the release of the 13,000 abducted Kashmiri youth, whose whereabouts are not known and who we are told are subjected to torture to ensure that their families do not join the freedom struggle. It is only when India implements these obligations under international humanitarian law that it should be removed from the report, in particular the list in the report.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Thousands of innocent Kashmiris, including women and children, have been killed in fake encounters and staged cordon and search operations. Children and youth have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment in order to elicit information or extract confessions or secure commitments not to participate in the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination and freedom from India’s illegal occupation. Last year Pakistan released a comprehensive and well-researched dossier covering accounts corroborated by audio and video evidence of 3,432 cases of war crimes, including against women and children, perpetrated by senior officers of the Indian occupying forces in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. Those officials must be held accountable.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I must also point to the visible oppression of the children of Jammu and Kashmir by India’s occupation forces. An entire generation of Kashmiri children has grown up in a climate of unspeakable fear, violence and repression. The human rights and humanitarian situation of children in Indian- occupied Jammu and Kashmir has deteriorated since 5 August 2019, when India unilaterally and illegally passed legislation to annex the occupied and disputed territory. We still remember the gut-wrenching picture of a three-year old Kashmiri boy, sitting in shock, on the dead body of his grandfather, after he was killed by Indian forces. It is estimated that 13,000 Kashmiri children and youth have been arbitrarily captured by the 900,000 Indian occupation forces in Jammu and Kashmir.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It does not take much to imagine the horrible experiences that children suffer and endure in situations of armed conflict. It is evident that considerably more needs to be done to ensure the safety and welfare of children in such situations. In particular, children suffer immensely in situations of foreign occupation. It is therefore the most visible anomaly in the report that the two blatant situations of foreign occupation — perpetrated by Israel, on the one hand, and by India in Jammu and Kashmir, on the other — are not listed in this report and given a free pass. We just heard from the Ambassador of Palestine about the situation of children in the occupied Palestinian territories and the killing of children that is happening, as we speak, in Jenin.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I would like to thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing this year’s annual Security Council debate on Children And Armed Conflict. We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Mrs. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter, and the other briefers for their insightful statements. Pakistan shares the deep concern expressed in the Secretary-General’s latest report (S/2023/363), which portrays a harrowing account of 27,180 verified grave violations against children, is staggering. One in six of the world’s children currently live in countries or areas affected by conflicts. It is evident that we need to do a lot more to ensure the safety, welfare and prosperity of our children.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Pakistan believes that engagement and cooperation can lead to a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan, where the humanitarian crisis will be over, where the rights of women and girls will be respected in accordance with sharia, where the economy is thriving, where Afghan refugees have returned home, where terrorism has been effectively addressed and where Afghanistan provides the trade and transit link between Central, West and South Asia.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“The Secretary-General’s appeal for $4.2 billion in humanitarian help, which has so far received less than 10 per cent, should be fully funded. Secondly, we should take concrete steps to revive the Afghan economy, including releasing externally held Afghan reserve assets, reviving the Afghan banking system, including through technical assistance to the Central Bank, reviving international support for reconstruction and infrastructure projects and for the implementation of regional connectivity projects. Thirdly, we should open and sustain a process of engagement with the Afghan interim Government through various available platforms — bilateral, regional and international.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“We hope the United Nations and the Secretary-General will continue his endeavour for normalization in Afghanistan. We believe that, to make this effort more effective, we should identify clear objectives to be promoted, promote direct engagement with the Afghan interim Government by having its representatives at the table and move away from utilizing only sticks and instead trying some carrots to advance the international community’s objectives. As we develop mutual trust and confidence with the Afghan interim Government to address the issues related to Afghanistan, we hope that the international community will, first, continue humanitarian assistance to the 28 million Afghans who need such assistance, which, in accordance with humanitarian norms, must remain unconditional.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“The three Foreign Ministers called on the international community to engage constructively with the Afghan interim Government. Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours are playing a major role in promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan. The continuation of the deliberations of the region’s Foreign Ministers in Samarkand was an important event. Pakistan also believes that other countries of the region, in particular the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, can and must play a larger role in promoting economic and political stability and development in Afghanistan. Pakistan welcomed and participated in the Doha Meeting of special envoys on Afghanistan. It was a useful and constructive exchange of assessments and recommendations to address the situation in Afghanistan.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“Muttaqi, visited Islamabad on 5 May for bilateral and trilateral discussions with our Foreign Minister and the Foreign Minister of China. As Afghanistan’s closest neighbour and friend, Pakistan is committed to doing everything possible to promote peace, harmony and socioeconomic development in Afghanistan. In turn, we have been reassured by the Afghan interim Government of its goodwill and support, including in addressing the threat posed by the TTP and other terrorist groups. The fifth Pakistan, Afghanistan and China Foreign Ministers dialogue was held in Islamabad on 6 May and addressed the critical issues relating to Afghanistan and the region. The meeting underlined the importance of cooperation across the spectrum of issues.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“Pakistan will continue to make every effort to find a durable and mutually agreed solution on this important issue. There has been limited progress towards enhancing political inclusion, and the threat from terrorist organizations within and from Afghanistan persists. While Al-Qaida is a shadow of its early self, Da’esh has yet to be contained, and the threat from the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is real and sizable — not only because of the external support it has received, but also because of other regional factors. Continued engagement with the Afghan interim Government is the best approach to reinforce the positive trends and address the continuing challenges in Afghanistan. At our invitation, the acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Mr.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“There is no credible internal threat, and no one should encourage anyone to pose such a threat. The Afghan interim Government has managed the Afghan economy, especially trade, commerce and revenue collection, reasonably well. The opium economy has been reduced, and the Afghan interim Government is engaged with all immediate neighbours — that is, China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan — and with the countries of the region and is open to engaging with the rest of the international community. On the negative side, the humanitarian situation remains dire, compounded by the impacts of climate change and sanctions. The unacceptable restrictions relating to women and girls have been broadened instead of reversed.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“I apologize for the length of my statement. I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, and the delegation of the United Arab Emirates on a very successful presidency of the Council this month and on convening this important debate on the situation in Afghanistan. I would also like to thank Special Representative Otunbayeva for her excellent briefing to us this morning, and I also thank Ms. Basij-Rasikh for her moving intervention. While we await the independent assessment of the situation in Afghanistan from Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu, we find that at present there are reasons for both optimism and pessimism regarding Afghanistan. On the positive side, we see security has vastly improved in Afghanistan, allowing commerce and trade, among other benefits. The interim Government is stable and secure.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“Yet the Council’s failures are not failures of insight or of recognition of realities. Of course, modern technological advances such as artificial intelligence are useful tools in building such insights. However, reliance on technology should not lead us to underestimate the unique value of the human factor in shaping the right and humane decisions at the United Nations, including in the Security Council. It is only by emphasizing and ensuring the values of humanity, morality and ethics that imbue the system of international relations constructed under the Charter that we, the world’s nations, can futureproof peace, security and prosperity.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We need to provide adequate finance — $4.2 trillion annually — to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through the creation of special drawing rights and reallocation through the recapitalization of the multilateral development banks; we need to fulfil official development assistance and climate finance commitments, as well as ensuring sustainable resolution of the debt crises and an end to illicit financial flows; and we need development-oriented policies in international trade, taxation and access to technology. If we are to restore trust, it is essential for decisions to be taken on those issues at the forthcoming SDG Summit. As mentioned in the concept note for today’s open debate (S/2023/283, annex), evidence-based insights are critical to strengthening transparency and decision-making in the Council and elsewhere.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Today 54 States are in debt distress and in danger of default, more than 100 million people have fallen back into poverty and 300 million are in need of food aid every day. Meanwhile, climate impacts are mounting, and the planet is becoming a less friendly habitat, especially for the poor. We know what needs to be done.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It is evident that conflicts, violence and terrorism have proliferated, particularly in the poorest parts of the world. Resilient peace is impossible without resilient development. The multiple economic shocks of the past three years have reversed the prospects for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During the pandemic, and in the subsequent development crises, trust has eroded in the international system owing to a wide deficit in solidarity and support for those who have suffered the most in these crises, through no fault of their own. Even today, the Bretton Woods institutions continue with policies that directly exacerbate the fiscal and development challenges of the developing countries.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The Council can then utilize the various means available under the Charter — for example, in Chapters VI, VII and VIII — to secure compliance by States that continue to violate the Charter’s principles and the Council’s own decisions. That would be the best way to futureproof — and even present-proof — international peace and security. Building international trust also entails addressing the root causes of conflict, including poverty, hunger, foreign occupation and oppression, the denial of the right to self-determination, injustice, human rights violations and climate impacts. Those are all conditions that should take centre stage in the Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace. Moreover, an equitable and non-discriminatory arms-control and disarmament regime is indispensable to averting conflicts and mitigating their effects.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“In Pakistan’s view, trust among States has eroded primarily because the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations have been consistently violated by powerful States and their allies and because insufficient attention has been paid to securing the implementation of the Security Council’s resolutions, as required under Article 25 of the Charter. Both the Charter and the Council’s resolutions are cardinal pillars of international law and the world order. Compliance with them is binding and obligatory for Member States. That is the critical prerequisite for restoring mutual trust among Member States. The Secretary-General should prepare an annual review of situations on the Security Council’s agenda where the Charter’s principles are being violated and the Council’s resolutions remain unimplemented.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Pakistan congratulates Switzerland on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. And it is a great pleasure for me personally to see you presiding over today’s open debate, Madam. We are also grateful to Switzerland for convening today’s open debate. The erosion of trust in the international political and economic system has been gradual, but it is now pervasive. While the trust deficit cannot be attributed to a single factor or event, it can be attributed to the evolution of a toxic global security environment in which States have come to believe that equipping themselves for war is the best guarantee of preserving their national security, sovereignty and independence.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Pakistan warmly welcomes to the normalization of relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. We commend the sincere and successful efforts made by the leadership of the People’s Republic of China to make that historic diplomatic breakthrough possible. Pakistan also welcomes the diplomatic and political measures initiated to restore peace and normalcy in Syria and Yemen. We hope that all the countries of the Arab and Islamic world will soon succeed in ending strife and restoring peace and stability across the Middle East and the Islamic world.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Given the erga omnes character of the right to self-determination, it is also incumbent on all States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment to the exercise by the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination be immediately brought to an end. The international community cannot accept the fait accompli that Israel is seeking to impose in order to destroy Palestinian nationhood. There will be no durable peace in the Holy Land until we see the creation of an independent, viable and contiguous State of Palestine, established on the basis of pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. Despite Israel’s illegal and disruptive actions, the Middle East witnessed several positive developments in recent months.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonize the territory it occupies — a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law. It amounts to a prima facie war crime”. Pakistan welcomed the adoption of General Assembly resolution 77/400, which seeks an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The Security Council, once it receives that opinion, will have to adopt further measures to ensure full compliance with international law. In particular, Israel must comply with its international obligation to respect the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“International law, furthermore, unequivocally restricts Israel, the occupying Power, from seizing land and building settlements in occupied territories, including East Jerusalem. Resolutions 476 (1980), 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016), inter alia, prohibit Israel from altering the demographic composition of Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. In a recent statement, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the human rights of internally displaced persons, stressed, inter alia, that: “Palestinians under Israeli occupation continue to be forced out of their homes and dispossessed of their land and properties on the basis of discriminatory laws.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Pakistan commends the Russian presidency for convening this timely debate on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Lavrov in this meeting, and we also welcome the Foreign Minister of Palestine. The Prime Minister of Pakistan condemns Israel’s brutal crackdown during the holy month of Ramadan, using stun grenades and tear gas against innocent Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is Islam’s the third-holiest site. Violation of its sanctity offends Muslim across the world. Israel’s actions are in violation of the historical and legal status quo. They violate the right to the freedom of worship, enshrined in article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and endorsed by General Assembly resolution 36/55, of 1981.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It must be accompanied by making full use of the considerable potential of the General Assembly, the activation of the United Nations disarmament machinery and, most critically, the reform and democratization of the Bretton Woods institutions. Effective multilateralism, in short, must be comprehensive, inclusive and equitable. Pakistan will work assiduously to promote such effective multilateralism, including in the preparations for the Summit of the Future next year.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The New Agenda for Peace, mentioned by the Secretary-General, should also address the fundamental causes of conflict, including poverty and hunger, foreign occupation and oppression, injustice, human rights violations and environmental and climate impacts. Finally, effective multilateralism can be built only on the foundations of strong international institutions. The Security Council should be enlarged and become more representative, accountable, democratic, transparent and effective. It should not become an enlarged club of the large and powerful States. However, a reformed Security Council in itself offers no panacea for ensuring effective multilateralism.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The United Nations can and should take the lead in reviving the process of arms control and disarmament, based on the consensus achieved in 1978 at the General Assembly’s first special session devoted to disarmament, whose central principles were equal security for all States, ensuring national security at the lowest possible level of armaments and the preservation of military balance and mutual restraint at the global and regional levels. We must also outlaw dangerous military doctrines, especially the presumption that conventional wars can be fought between nuclear-armed States without fear of nuclear escalation. The Security Council, the General Assembly and the Secretary-General can do much more to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes through the multiple modalities available under Chapters VI, VII and VIII of the Charter.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The Summit of the Future next year should reaffirm the solemn commitment, especially by the militarily significant States, to refraining from the use or threat of use of force, respecting the principles of the Charter, implementing Security Council resolutions, restraining military expenditures and provocative deployments and eschewing military blocs and alliances. Rising global tensions have undermined the entire edifice of arms control and disarmament. An uncontrolled arms race, which now encompasses several new weapons and arenas of competition, will sooner or later lead to a disastrous conflict involving States armed to the teeth with conventional and nuclear weapons.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Secondly, if the world is to avoid global catastrophe, it is now essential to redress the rising tensions between the major military Powers. We hope that a sincere effort will be made to end the war in Ukraine based on the Charter and international agreements. We hope that tensions will not be further provoked in Asia. We are concerned about the expansion of military alliances and the escalation of military expenditures and capabilities. Such developments also threaten peace and stability in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The Secretary-General has rightly mentioned decolonization as a major achievement of the United Nations. Yet a prime illustration of derogation from the Charter and Security Council resolutions is the situation in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, where the Kashmiri people’s exercise of their right to self-determination, prescribed by the Security Council, has been subverted and suppressed by India over seven decades of force and fraud. Another is the situation in occupied Palestine. Protestations of commitment to the Charter ring hollow when no action is being taken to redress those blatant violations of the Charter and the resolutions of the Security Council on two issues that have remained on the Council’s agenda for the past 75 years.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Effective multilateralism can address the current and emerging threats to international peace and security. A critical part of that endeavour must be to promote universal and consistent respect for the fundamental principles of the Charter by all States, irrespective of their size, power or influence. To that end, the Secretary-General should prepare an annual review of situations on the Security Council’s agenda, outlining where the Charter’s principles and the resolutions of the Council are being violated or remain unimplemented. The Council must take bold decisions to secure the compliance of States with the Charter’s principles and its own resolutions and decisions. The Council has various means available to it under the Charter to secure such compliance.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“We reject a unipolar, bipolar or even a so-called multipolar world if it is dominated by a few large and powerful States. Such an order would be contrary to the principle of the sovereign equality of States. We seek effective multilateralism — a multilateral order constructed on the basis of the purposes and principles of the Charter, one in which every Member State has an equal voice and an equal stake. At the same time, we must express our concern about some new concepts advanced in some of our discussions within the United Nations, such as “multi-stakeholder” and “networked” multilateralism. Those concepts, too, are contrary to the United Nations Charter, which envisages an international system composed of equal and sovereign Member States.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“First of all, Mr. President, it is a profound pleasure for me personally to see you preside over the Security Council today, and my delegation thanks you and the Russian presidency for organizing this important debate on international security and effective multilateralism. We also thank the Secretary-General for his important briefing. Today international peace and security is confronted by multiple threats arising from violations of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, great-Power rivalries, a renewed global arms race, the proliferation of conflicts and disputes and the spread of terrorism, hate and Islamophobia, as well as organized crime, rising poverty and growing climate impacts. We believe that those multidimensional and global challenges can be overcome only through multilateral cooperation.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Such a road map should, on the one hand, set out the desired objectives of the international community, and on the other, indicate the incentives for the Afghan interim Government, which seeks the lifting of sanctions and international recognition. As a first step, the travel ban exemptions could be restored, and a review of the sanctions regime established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) could be initiated. We hope that the anomaly of Afghanistan’s United Nations representation will also soon be addressed.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“It is essential for Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours to move in concert with the efforts to restore normalcy and stability in Afghanistan. We also believe that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has a vital role in supporting Afghanistan’s active revival of its economy and in helping to restore human rights, especially the rights of women and girls, in accordance with Islamic injunctions by presenting best practices. Despite current geopolitical tensions, Pakistan believes that it is in the interest of the major Powers to cooperate in the endeavour to build peace and stability in Afghanistan. Pakistan endorses the proposals for a clear road map or pathway to normalization in Afghanistan.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“That would be a recipe for further conflict and instability in Afghanistan and throughout the region. We have just ended 40 years of conflict. We must not repeat the mistakes that have been made in the past. Despite the challenging environment, Pakistan believes that the continuing engagement with the Afghan interim Government is the best means to achieve the international community’s objectives for the observance of human rights, especially women’s rights, inclusive governance and an end to terrorism within and from Afghanistan. We value the role that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and Special Representative Otunbayeva are playing in Afghanistan. Pakistan supports the renewal of UNAMA’s mandate.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“Pakistan has continued its patient engagement with the Afghan interim Government to address our concerns with regard to terrorism, border incidents provoked by local Taliban commanders and other issues. Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar visited Kabul on 29 November last year to promote these objectives, including respect for the rights of Afghan women and girls and to assure the Afghan interim Government of Pakistan’s continued support for humanitarian, economic and technical assistance to Afghanistan. In addition, our Defence Minister led a delegation to Kabul on 22 February to discuss the threat of terrorism and other security issues. It would be unrealistic and indeed dangerous to believe, as we have just heard, that the Afghan interim Government can be replaced or destabilized by force.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“Pakistan’s major concern is the terrorist attacks within and from Afghanistan by Da’esh, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terrorist groups. In recent months, Pakistan has endured a series of such terrorist attacks emanating from the TTP and other associated terrorists from sentry posts in Afghanistan. These terrorist actions also have external sponsorship and financing. The Afghan interim Government has repeatedly assured us and others that Afghanistan’s territory will not be used for terrorism against neighbouring countries, including Pakistan or any other country. The Afghan interim Government needs to demonstrate more effectively that it has the intent and the capacity to fulfil these assurances.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source