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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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“Although the Afghan interim Government appears to have mobilized resources to manage itself through trade and customs revenues, the Afghan people continue to suffer because of the collapse of the Afghan economy after external assistance was eliminated following the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. It is therefore essential to revive the Afghan banking and financial sector, productively utilize Afghanistan’s national resources and assets, finance desperately needed reconstruction of infrastructure and implement the several shovel ready connectivity projects, including the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the Central Asia South Asia electricity grid and the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan rail project. All of Afghanistan’s neighbours support such steps for the revival of the Afghan economy.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“As the report of the Secretary-General outlines, 28 million Afghan women, children and men face abject poverty and need urgent assistance. Halting or reducing humanitarian assistance would hurt the very people — women and children — whose human rights the international community seeks to uphold. It would also create more refugees, more drugs and more violence in and from Afghanistan. We therefore urge the full funding of the Secretary-General’s $4.2 billion recovery plan for Afghanistan. On the other hand, what is needed is a more comprehensive international effort to revive the Afghan economy.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“We join others in expressing our deep disappointment at the further restrictions placed by the Afghan interim Government on the rights of women and girls to education and work. We hope that the Afghan interim Government will soon find a solution to restore these rights in the light of Islamic injunctions. Pakistan commends Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, United Nations Under-Secretary- General Martin Griffith and Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva for their efforts and engagements with the Afghan interim Government to create space for the continuation of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. We continue to believe that ending or reducing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan would be morally wrong and politically counter-productive.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“I would like to congratulate Mozambique and you, Mr. President, on an active and successful presidency of the Council during this month. We also thank the Secretary-General for his latest report on Afghanistan (S/2023/151) and the Special Representative, Her Excellency Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her briefing today. We also heard from two Afghan citizens. The Security Council’s proceedings would have been more productive if we were able to interact with the people who actually control the territory of Afghanistan. As Afghanistan’s immediate and closest neighbour, Pakistan has suffered enormously from the four decades of conflict in the country. Pakistan desires peace and stability in Afghanistan as a strategic compulsion. Pakistan is deeply concerned by recent developments in Afghanistan, reflected in the report of the Secretary-General.”
2023-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9277 (2023) · source
“We expect that the Court’s opinion will lead to Israeli accountability for its crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is a measure of Israel’s sense of impunity that it has taken punitive measures against the Palestinian authorities and people for merely seeking the Court’s opinion. The perpetuation of Israeli occupation will not bring peace to the Holy Land. Even if they are dispossessed and disempowered by Israel, every succeeding generation of Palestinians will persist in seeking their freedom and fundamental rights, including their right to self-determination. The two-State formula offers the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The increasing extremism in the Israeli leadership must not be allowed to foreclose that solution.”
2023-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9246 (2023) · source
“The Security Council must act swiftly and resolutely to bring a halt to all such Israeli violations, ensure its full compliance with international law and implement its own resolutions. There is no question in anybody’s mind that Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian lands — the seizure of land and properties for Israeli settlements, the violence against unarmed Palestinian children, women and men, the blockade of Gaza and the desecration of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque — are all grave violations of Security Council resolutions and international law, including international humanitarian law. We look forward to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal implications of the Israeli occupation.”
2023-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9246 (2023) · source
“Pakistan strongly condemns the provocative visit of Israeli Minister of National Security to the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Al-Aqsa is a holy site revered by Muslims around the world. For 14 centuries, Muslims have been loving guardians of Holy Al-Aqsa. Violation of its sanctity offends the religious sensitivities of Muslims all over the world, inflames an already tense situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and could have grave impact the regional and international peace and security. Pakistan rejects all Israeli measures and attempts to alter the historical and legal status quo of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif and demands full respect of the status quo and of international law at Al-Aqsa and all other holy sites in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
2023-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9246 (2023) · source
“Pakistan welcomes the convening by the Japanese presidency of this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question. We express our grave concern about the constantly deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The year 2022 was among the deadliest years for the Palestinian people. According to reports, 230 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli occupying forces, including 61 children, in addition to the injuring and detention of thousands of others, while hundreds of homes, civilian properties and structures and agricultural crops have been destroyed. Pakistan is also deeply alarmed by Israel’s ongoing acts of aggression, incitement and provocation against Christian and Islamic holy places, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif.”
2023-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9246 (2023) · source
“It is essential for Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours to maintain a unified approach, including through the six neighbours platform and through initiatives such as that from Uzbekistan, about which we just heard. We should not allow spoilers to erode such regional cooperation. The international community must also continue to intensify its engagement with Afghanistan. Isolating the interim authorities or remaining aloof from the situation is not a winning strategy. Stabilizing Afghanistan requires concerted international cooperation. Peace and stability in Afghanistan requires cooperation among all major Powers, despite the current tensions between them. It needs the effective multilateralism that was propagated so eloquently in the Council last week.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“UNAMA’s mandate can be achieved effectively only through continued engagement with the interim Afghan Government, notwithstanding the difficulties and challenges involved. UNAMA should in particular support the interim Government’s efforts to collect weapons and arms from various militias. Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours have an even more critical role in promoting stability and economic revival through trade, regional cooperation and political dialogue, while addressing the complex security environment, including the threat of terrorism, the problem of drug trafficking and smuggling and border incidents provoked by ill-disciplined local commanders. Pakistan is working on modalities to prevent border incidents with the interim authorities.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“The TTP is perhaps the largest terrorist group within Afghanistan. Its safe havens are located in Nangarhar province, close to Pakistan’s borders. Pakistan continues to suffer cross-border attacks by the TTP, which receives financing and sponsorship from external sources. The efforts of the interim Government to neutralize the TTP, efforts in which we have participated, have not succeeded. Pakistan reserves the right to take decisive action to eliminate the terrorist threat posed by the TTP. Pakistan values the role played by UNAMA as a vehicle to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan and to address the humanitarian, economic and security challenges facing the people of Afghanistan.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“ISIL-K recently launched attacks against the Russian Embassy, Chinese personnel in Kabul and Pakistan’s Head of Mission, in which he was injured and a security guard was critically wounded. We have strongly condemned that assassination attempt and called on the interim Government to apprehend and punish the perpetrators. ISIL-K, or Da’esh, remains a potent and growing threat for two reasons: first, it continues to receive funding from outside Afghanistan, and is thereby equipped to attract recruits; and secondly, it offers an alternate home to all those terrorist and other groups that are opposed to the interim authorities in Kabul. The international community needs to work in tandem with the interim Government to eliminate those ISIL-K/Da’esh advantages and to devise a strategy to effectively neutralize its terrorism capabilities.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“The interim authorities are obviously averse to sharing power with their erstwhile adversaries. However, they would benefit, including in improving governance, if they could include the participation of Afghan experts who possess the expertise required to transform Afghanistan into a functioning modern State. A concerted effort to bring that about can be part of the process of engagement with the interim Government. Obviously, a major concern for the international community — and especially for Afghanistan’s neighbours — is the rise of terrorist violence within and from Afghanistan. While international media attention has focused on a much-diminished Al-Qaida, a major threat today emanates from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“We will also continue, together with other OIC countries to share best practices on women’s role in Islamic countries, which are consistent with sharia and which we will share with the interim Afghan authorities in an effort to persuade them to turn onto the right path. In that context, we are extremely disturbed by the latest announcement of restrictions on higher education for women in Afghanistan. But we continue to believe that it is through measures of persuasion and cooperation, and not coercion, that we can succeed in overcoming the impediments to ensuring women’s rights in Afghanistan. Those impediments are cultural, not religious. There is no credible challenge within Afghanistan to the control of the Afghan interim Government. Yet greater political inclusion will serve to advance the goal of peace and stability in Afghanistan.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Hina Rabbani Khar, conveyed our assurances that Pakistan would continue to extend all possible humanitarian assistance for Afghan refugees, trade prospects, transit access and technical assistance to Afghanistan. However, she also made it clear to the leaders of the Afghan interim Government that we will not compromise on the issue of women’s rights to education and work and other human rights. During her visit, she met with the Afghanistan Women’s Chamber of Commerce. We will encourage the strengthening of ties between the respective women’s chambers of commerce of our two countries.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Also, the implementation of the major connectivity projects— such as the Central Asia-South Asia electricity grid, the Uzbekistan railway and the Turkmenistan- Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline — which are all shovel-ready and can be a central component of an economic revival strategy for Afghanistan. All of Afghanistan’s neighbours are willing to implement those projects. Pakistan and China have also expressed a desire to extend the China-Pakistan economic corridor to Afghanistan. The international banking system and international companies should not be discouraged from supporting those connectivity projects. During her recent visit to Kabul, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ms.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has given some careful thought to help revive the Afghan economy. The key is to inject the financial assets of Afghanistan, especially the $7 billion that is held abroad, into the Afghan financial system, and thereby revive economic and commercial capacity. For their part, the interim authorities have demonstrated a capacity for efficient management to raise revenues through trade and transit, as we just heard. Thirdly, reconstruction projects must be restarted, including the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed during the past 20 years of conflict.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“We support the assistance being provided through the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and other United Nations and international agencies, as well as civil society organizations, and commend their help to the Afghan people, despite the difficult circumstances in which they operate. We urge that the Secretary-General’s $4.4 billion response plan be fully funded and that the United Nations Development Programme’s special window and other avenues to maintain economic and financial activities be maintained and strengthened. Secondly, we have to revive the Afghan economy, especially its banking system. For that purpose, it is imperative that the issue of international financial transactions and Afghanistan’s frozen assets held abroad be addressed.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“We need a coherent and practical plan in order to realize the objectives of the international community through patient engagement with the interim Government. The collapse of the Afghan economy is due to the cut-off of external economic and financial support on which Afghanistan had become dependent for 75 per cent of its economic activity. Our first priority must remain to reverse the current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan when 95 per cent of the population exists in extreme poverty. We welcome resolution 2615 (2021), which provides for a humanitarian carveout of the Council’s sanctions regimes.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Peace and stability in Afghanistan is a political and strategic compulsion for Pakistan. We are deeply concerned about the challenging situation in Afghanistan outlined in the Secretary- General’s report. Yet we continue to believe that engagement with the interim Afghan Government is the best option to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region and to realize the shared objectives of the international community — respect for human rights, especially women’s rights, inclusive governance and the elimination of terrorism within and from Afghanistan. Coercion and isolation have not proved successful in the past. They will prove to be counterproductive now and in future, as we have just learned.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Let me begin by first congratulating Ambassador Kamboj and the Indian delegation on their skilful guidance of the Security Council during the current month. Pakistan welcomes the discussion on Afghanistan, and we would like to thank the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2022/916), as well as Special Representative Otunbayeva and Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for their briefings. We also welcome the briefings from the citizens of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is our immediate neighbour. Our contiguity is physical, not aggressively aspirational. We share deep bonds of faith, ethnicity and history with Afghanistan. Pakistan has suffered grievously over the past four decades from the fallout of foreign interventions and civil war in Afghanistan.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Ultimately, the constructive and effective role of key international actors in reviving hopes and prospects for peace requires urgent efforts to de-escalate the situation and advance justice. To that end, this organ is urged to engage in and promote a multilaterally sponsored peace process aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace that will end the Israeli occupation and ensure the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including Palestinian refugees, and lead to the long-delayed independence and sovereignty of the State of Palestine, within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with international law, relevant United Nations resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“In that regard, we stress that such illegal acts, if left unchecked, will further embolden Israel, the occupying Power, to continue those recurrent crimes and violations. It is time for accountability measures to be pursued, in accordance with international law, including the many relevant United Nations resolutions calling for a complete end to Israel’s illegal settlement activities. We urge the Security Council to uphold its resolutions in that regard and work to implement them forthwith as a vital contribution to bringing those crimes to a halt. In conclusion, we reaffirm that peace and justice require accountability for the human rights violations and heinous crimes that we have witnessed for too long in occupied Palestine. There cannot be peace without justice.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“The OIC stresses that Israel’s law-breaking record must be urgently checked, in line with its obligations under all relevant international instruments, and that it must be held fully accountable for its treatment of all Palestinian prisoners who it illegally holds captive in its prisons and detention centres, including women and children and ill persons. In the same vein, Israel’s continued and extensive land appropriation, colonial settlement construction and facilitation, accompaniment of settlers’ acts of provocation, violence and terrorism against the Palestinian civilians, raids of their towns and vandalism of their properties and agricultural fields continue unabated, in grave breach of international law, in particular international criminal law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“We call upon international actors and bodies, including the Security Council, to take urgent action to stop the assaults, ensure the protection of Palestinian civilians in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory and guarantee accountability and justice for the horrific crimes being committed by the Israeli occupation forces. We express our deep concern about the critical situation of the approximately 50 Palestinian political prisoners who last month started a mass hunger strike to protest Israeli administrative detention abuses, as well as the inhumane and oppressive treatment they experience in violation of their most basic human rights.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“In that regard, the OIC stresses that the Jordanian administration of the Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque affairs is the only entity authorized under the provisions of international humanitarian law to manage all the affairs of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the entirety of its 144,000 square metres. It also stresses that maintaining comprehensive calm requires Israel to respect the legal and historical status quo of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif and to find a real political horizon that guarantees the fulfilment of all legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, on the basis of a two-State solution. In that regard, the OIC reaffirms that the historical and legal status quo of the holy sites in East Jerusalem must be maintained and respected.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“We welcomed the signing of a declaration in Algiers emanating from the Unification Conference to Achieve Palestinian National Unity, held in Algeria between 11 and 13 October, and in that regard we highly commend the efforts of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria and his personal commitment to achieving intra-Palestinian reconciliation, which is vital to a politically stable, economically viable, sovereign and independent State of Palestine. The OIC reiterates the call for full respect for the historical and legal status quo of Jerusalem and its holy sites and for the historical Hashemite custodianship over the Christian and Muslim holy sites in the city.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“Furthermore, those violations are provocative and hurt the feelings of all Muslims across the globe, threatening to ignite a dangerous religious conflict that would gravely jeopardize stability and fuel violence in the region and beyond. The OIC commends the continued efforts of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, as Chair of the Al-Quds Committee, to protect the Islamic holy sites in Al-Quds Al-Sharif and stand up to the Israeli occupation authorities’ measures aimed at Judaizing the holy city. We also praise the concrete role played by the Al-Quds Committee’s Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency in carrying out projects and activities building development and steadfastness for the holy city’s inhabitants.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“The situation in East Jerusalem in particular remains of deep concern, due to the repeated violations and daily incursions by Israeli extremist settler groups and occupation forces into the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al-Haram Al-Sharif, along with their ongoing attempts to impose a spatial and temporal division of that holy Islamic shrine. Such acts are in contravention of international law and the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, including Security Council resolutions 476 (1980), 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016), and constitute violations of the historic and legal status quo at the holy sites.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“First of all, let me congratulate you, Sir, and the delegation of Gabon on a very successful presidency of the Security Council this month. I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the States members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The constantly deteriorating and extremely volatile situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, is getting even worse as a result of Israel’s escalation of its human rights violations, breaches of international humanitarian law and recurrent brutal and criminal assaults, which have claimed scores of innocent lives and left hundreds of Palestinian civilians wounded, including children and women.”
2022-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9174 (2022) · source
“Pakistan will continue its endeavours to that end within the format of Afghanistan’s six immediate neighbours plus Russia; within the OIC; with UNAMA; with the European Union; with other friendly countries; and, if so desired, within the platform of the troika plus Pakistan. The meeting rose at 5.30 p.m.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“Their objectives are focused on a strategic advantage against Pakistan and its friends. We will resist them vigorously In response to its cooperation on terrorism, human rights and political inclusivity, it is natural that the Afghan interim Government desires reciprocal steps, including humanitarian, economic and financial assistance, the early removal of sanctions and eventual diplomatic recognition. Those steps must not be perceived in Kabul as being a bridge too far. It is only through continued engagement and mutual accommodation that peace and security will be restored in Afghanistan.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“We expect the Afghan interim Government to prevent Afghanistan’s territory from being utilized for terrorism against neighbours or any other country, in particular by eliminating the threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant- Khorasan Province, Da’esh, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, as well as Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, which is of vital importance. Pakistan will support all sincere efforts by the Afghan interim Government to neutralize and eliminate those terrorist groups while fully respecting Afghanistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Certain spoilers, however, who wish to encourage terrorism against Pakistan from Afghan soil must be vigorously dissuaded.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“Pakistan has initiated such exchanges, and we are hopeful that progress can be made through that process. Similarly, the OIC hopes, as do Afghanistan’s neighbours, that progress can be made on the issue of political inclusivity. Perhaps, in the first instance, that could be promoted at the functional level. Any encouragement of dissident groups can reverse efforts to promote political inclusivity and reconciliation. For Pakistan and for most of the international community, the greatest concern is to prevent terrorism from and within Afghanistan.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“Despite the difficulties, Pakistan believes that the Council, the international community and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) should develop a clear pathway to advance those three objectives. Pakistan hopes that the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General will be appointed soon and that UNAMA’s constructive engagement with the interim Government will be maintained. We agree with the representative of the United Arab Emirates that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has a special role to play in developing a pathway towards normalization. We have presented the views of the OIC to the Council previously. On human rights and girls’ education, the OIC countries will seek to make advances, inter alia, through conversations between the Taliban and delegations of Islamic scholars and Ulema.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“The isolation of the Afghan interim Government is neither in the interests of the Afghan people nor of the international community. While we appreciate the frustration of many Governments with the non-fulfilment of early promises made by the Taliban on women and girls’ education, human rights, inclusivity and counter- terrorism, isolating the Kabul leadership is unlikely to persuade it to change its policies, much less its ideology. It is only through sustained engagement that we can advance the objectives of the international community in Afghanistan, that is, respect for human rights, political inclusivity and counter-terrorism.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“Similarly, we call for the release of all of Afghanistan’s frozen national reserves and the creation of effective mechanisms for their disbursement to, and use by, the Afghan people. Without such support, economic collapse and chaos may be the consequence. The early resumption of reconstruction and the implementation of shovel-ready connectivity projects with Central Asia and other neighbours, including the extension of the China-Pakistan economic corridor to Afghanistan, can consolidate economic stabilization in Afghanistan. We are disturbed by the disagreement within the Council on the resumption of the travel ban exemption for the 13 Taliban leaders. We hope it does not signify a geopolitical divergence on Afghanistan between major Powers. That would have serious implications for Afghanistan and the entire region.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“That implies, first and foremost, avoiding another civil war. It would be irresponsible for anyone, neighbour or not, to encourage or sponsor any insurgency or any terrorist group in Afghanistan. It is vital to continue humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan in order to avoid another civil war, to arrest the rise of terrorist groups such as Da’esh and to prevent economic collapse, a humanitarian crisis and another refugee surge from Afghanistan. Even as Pakistan and its people grapple with the devastating impacts of the unprecedented floods that are ravaging my country, we urge the international community to fulfil the Secretary-General’s call for $4.2 billion in humanitarian assistance and economic support to the people of Afghanistan. Pakistan’s help to Afghanistan will also continue.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“A comprehensive political solution among all Afghan parties, as well as between them and the foreign presence, would have been the best way to end the 20-year conflict. Unfortunately, despite the efforts made — especially by Pakistan — such an outcome proved elusive. The Security Council, Afghanistan’s neighbours and the international community are obliged to deal with the realities in Afghanistan, not with subjective perceptions and desires. What could not be imposed by force is unlikely to be secured by sanctions, assets freezes or travel bans. Regardless of the ideology and the internal policies of the Afghan interim Government, the primary interest of the international community and of Afghanistan’s neighbours — especially Pakistan — is the restoration of sustainable peace and security in Afghanistan.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“First of all, let me congratulate you, Sir, on a very successful presidency this month. I would like to express my gratitude to those delegations that expressed their condolences in the light of the devastating floods in Pakistan. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths, Deputy Special Representative Potzel and Ms. Morgan Edwards for their briefings. We are grateful to the Russian Federation for calling for this meeting and to you, Sir, for convening it. This is a timely discussion on Afghanistan one year after the withdrawal of foreign forces and the Taliban’s takeover in Kabul. It can be said of this long war — as of all wars in Afghanistan — that it could not have been won and should never have been fought. The withdrawal of foreign forces was inevitable; the important issue was what was left behind.”
2022-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9118 (2022) · source
“It has not condemned Israel’s violations of human rights, international law and the Council’s own resolutions. It has not been able to revive the process to promote the accepted two-State solution. The festering wound of Israeli occupation and atrocities in occupied Palestine is the principal source of instability, tensions and conflict in the entire Middle East. In order to bring peace and stability to the Middle East, the Palestine question — the source of the region’s insecurity and its multiple conflicts — must be effectively addressed as the first and most urgent priority.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“If history is a guide, even if they are dispossessed and disempowered by Israel, every succeeding generation of Palestinians will persist in seeking its freedom and fundamental rights, including the right to self-determination, as well as the two-State solution formula involving the establishment of a sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian State, living side by side with Israel within recognized and accepted pre-set 1967 boundaries, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, which offers the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A peace process to achieve that objective must be revived. It is regrettable that the Council has failed to reassert the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law in occupied Palestine.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Secondly, there is no moral, legal or political equivalence between Israel, the occupying State, and the occupied and oppressed Palestinian people. The Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the implementation of the resolutions of the Council is legitimate. Israel’s repression of the occupied Palestinian people is illegitimate. Thirdly, the perpetuation of the Israeli occupation will not bring peace to the holy land.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“It also reaffirmed that Al-Quds Al-Sharif is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory of the State of Palestine and called on the international community to compel Israel, the occupying Power, to desist from its colonial practices and abide by all international resolutions on the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif and refrain from all measures, practices and decisions aimed at altering the character and legal status of the holy city. First, there is no question in anybody’s mind that Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian lands, its seizure of land and properties for Israeli settlements, its violence against unarmed Palestinian children, women and men and its blockade of Gaza are grave violations of Security Council resolutions and international law, including humanitarian law.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The forty-eighth ministerial meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Islamic countries adopted the Islamabad declaration, which, inter alia, re-emphasized the centrality of the question of Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif for the Muslim Ummah, reaffirming its principled and continued all-level support to the Palestinian people to regain their inalienable, legitimate national rights, including their right to self-determination and the independence of the State of Palestine along the 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“I will try to be brief, but my statement was delayed to this afternoon because of the lengthy statements that were made in the Security Council this morning. Pakistan thanks the Brazilian presidency for convening this open debate on the situation in the Middle East and Palestine. Pakistan expresses its deep concern about the continued deterioration of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including occupied Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Pakistan condemns the continued killing and wounding of Palestinian civilians, including children, as well as the demolition of Palestinian homes, the forcible displacement of Palestinian families and the brazen murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“On the basis of that understanding, my delegation will further enhance its engagement with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Security Council’s Working Group.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We also urge the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to continue to closely monitor, and report on, the situation of children in Indian-occupied Kashmir. Pakistan fully supports the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to deal with situations of children in armed conflict. The legal parameters of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General’s mandate must be scrupulously respected. The singular focus of that mandate is to address the conditions of children in situations of armed conflicts. It does not extend to the consideration of violence within Member States, which is within their national jurisdictions.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Many participants might have seen — and, if not, must see — the gut-wrenching picture of a 3-year-old Kashmiri boy sitting in shock on the dead body of his grandfather after he had been killed by Indian forces. The list of such horrifying crimes is long. Last year, the Government of 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 since 1989. We will share that evidence with the Security Council’s Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and we urge that those responsible be held accountable.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Children and youth are routinely detained and subjected to torture and ill treatment in order to elicit intelligence or to extract confessions that they are associated with the Kashmiri groups struggling for the self-determination that has been promised to them by the Security Council. The administration of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir itself admitted to the Indian Supreme Court that, in August and September 2019 alone, 144 children were detained. The youngest of them was 9 years old. During 2021, more than 210 innocent Kashmiris, including women and children, were killed in fake encounters and staged cordon-and-search operations. Thousands were arbitrarily detained, and hundreds of houses were destroyed as part of collective punishments inflicted on the Kashmiri communities.”
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