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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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“Despite the persistent concerns raised by multiple United Nations special rapporteurs and mandate holders of the Human Rights Council and by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the human rights and humanitarian situation of children in occupied Kashmir has continued to deteriorate, especially since 5 August 2019, when India unilaterally and illegally passed legislation to annex the occupied and disputed state. An estimated 13,000 Kashmiri children and youth have been arbitrarily captured by the 900,000 members of the Indian occupation forces in Jammu and Kashmir.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Nowhere is this trend more visible than in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The most recent report of the Secretary-General has expressed deep concerns about the continued grave violations against children in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The report has urged the Indian Government to undertake preventive measures to protect children, including by ending the use of pellets against children and their illegal detention in occupied Kashmir and in various faraway prisons across India.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Millions of children are trapped in wars and conflicts across the world, while some fall victim to widespread violence against civilians. Many children become casualties of calculated and targeted actions against them. Still others suffer the trauma of sexual violence or the multiple deprivations of armed conflict, including hunger and disease. The most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2022/493) portrays a sombre picture. It notes overall 23,982 verified grave violations against children. Indeed, the killing and maiming of children remained the most verified grave violation against children, followed by the recruitment and use of children in conflicts and the denial of humanitarian access to children. Children also suffer immensely in situations of foreign occupation.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“First of all, let me congratulate Brazil for its very successful presidency of the Security Council this month. We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the entire Brazilian delegation for organizing this year’s annual debate of the Security Council 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 and important briefings. In a world that is still afflicted by the coronavirus disease, by protracted and new conflicts and by a food, fuel and finance emergency, it is evident that we must do more to protect our children and ensure their safety, welfare and prosperity.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We welcome some of the steps that have been taken, including the formation of a possible Loya Jirga. We hope that we will consider the situation in Afghanistan from the proper historical and geopolitical perspective. We hope that, at this critical juncture in the history of Afghanistan, we will make the right choices that will steer the country towards peace and stability and help bring about an end to the four decades of suffering and war that the Afghan people have endured.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Despite our mutual frustrations about the lack of progress on several issues — political inclusivity, women’s rights, girls’ education, counter-terrorism — in our view, the international community’s engagement with the Afghan authorities has produced some tangible progress on several fronts. As compared to the past, there are not thousands of civilian casualties, as was the count then. The overall political and security situation in Afghanistan has remained relatively stable. The threat of a possible civil war or wide-scale reprisal killings or the mass exodus of refugees has been avoided thus far. The international community should encourage all efforts that should be made by Afghans themselves to promote political reconciliation and inclusivity.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We will find effective ways to end such terrorist attacks against Pakistan and stop the disinformation campaign, which one member of the Security Council, a State sponsor of terrorism, has launched against my country. Pakistan supports the efforts within the platform of the six neighbouring countries plus Russia to promote a pathway to peace and economic and political normalization in Afghanistan. We also believe that the extended troika of the United States, China, Russia and Pakistan can make a contribution to building an agreed pathway to peace and stability in Afghanistan, including ways and means to effectively address the threat of terrorism within and from Afghanistan.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We look forward to working with UNAMA under the new Special Representative. We feel that UNAMA must focus, first and foremost, on helping to address the economic and financial crisis faced by Afghanistan, including by continuing to address the impact of bilateral sanctions, as well as working towards the unfreezing of Afghan assets. We are encouraged that both the Under-Secretary- General and the Deputy Special Representative have advocated engagement. It is through economic and political engagement that concerns about human rights, including the rights of women and girls, political inclusivity and counter-terrorism, are likely to be satisfactorily addressed. Pakistan remains especially concerned about the terrorist attacks emanating from Afghanistan, which are attacks against my country. They are sponsored and financed by our adversary.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“The OIC has recalled the statement issued in New York on the right of Afghan girls to education, which called for respect for the right of all Afghans to education. It has reiterated the central role of OIC member States and Islamic scholars, as well as the Ulema, in continuing dialogue, engagement and exchange of best practices with the Afghan authorities on access to education and women’s rights in Islam, including through the exchanges of respective delegations. Finally, the OIC has called on the international community, in particular the Security Council, to support all such engagement efforts and to remove any practical or logistical hindrances to that end. We trust that the Security Council and UNAMA will take full account of those elements for normalization and stability in Afghanistan, as set out in the OIC’s joint statement.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“The OIC has also urged the Security Council in particular to ensure that existing targeted sanctions do not impede the provision of humanitarian aid or economic resources to Afghanistan. The OIC has reiterated that development, peace and security, stability and human rights are interlinked, and it has underlined the importance of achieving sustainable peace and development in Afghanistan through regional economic and connectivity projects. It has also emphasized the importance of establishing inclusive governmental structures, while reaffirming the importance of ensuring that the territory of Afghanistan is not used as a platform or safe haven by any terrorist group, organization or individual.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“My delegation, in its capacity as Chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, has circulated a document to the Security Council outlining the pathway to peace and stability as envisaged by the States members of the OIC in their decisions at the past two ministerial conferences. The OIC has called for sustained engagement by the international community with Afghanistan, including in the provision of all possible recovery, reconstruction, development, financial, educational, technical and material assistance. It has reiterated that Afghanistan’s access to its financial resources will be pivotal in preventing a collapse and called for the exploration of realistic pathways towards unfreezing Afghanistan’s financial assets and legitimate banking services.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“While the worst humanitarian scenarios were avoided last winter due to the characteristic resilience of the Afghan people, as well as the excellent work carried out by the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies, human catastrophe could well happen unless steps are taken to address the underlying causes of Afghanistan’s humanitarian and economic crisis. Its consequences would include massive human suffering, more Afghan refugees, the revival of internal conflict and an intensified threat from terrorist groups like Da’esh. We are at another inflection point in Afghanistan’s recent turbulent history. In our view, we must be clear about our objectives, the primary one being to achieve peace and stability in Afghanistan.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Deborah Lyons, for her constructive role as Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and express our expectation that her successor will maintain constructive engagement with the people and the de facto Government of Afghanistan. Pakistan takes this opportunity to convey its deepest condolences over the loss of precious lives and extensive damage caused by yesterday’s devastating earthquake in Afghanistan. We will provide all possible assistance to Afghanistan at this tragic hour and urge the international community to do so as well. The earthquake will further exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We take note of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2022/485) and thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths and Deputy Special Representative Alakbarov for their briefings. We heard from three Afghans in today’s Security Council meeting. They represent themselves. The Security Council has not, however, invited those who actually control the country to participate. I believe that, while the Taliban is being called upon to act, the fact that the Council is not able to hear its representatives calls into question the credibility of the Council’s consideration of the situation in Afghanistan. We also thank the outgoing Special Representative, Ms.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“The danger of another conflict between Pakistan and India will remain ever present until the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir is resolved. The Secretary-General’s report notes: “The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility” (S/2022/381, para. 2). This observation applies not only to the dangerous conflict now raging in Ukraine but also to a nuclearized South Asia. Pakistan therefore urges the Secretary- General and the Security Council not to neglect the Kashmir dispute, deploy diplomacy and mobilize the political will to promote a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, Security Council resolutions and the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“As my Prime Minister has declared, India can imprison Yasin Malik, but it can never imprison the idea of freedom that he symbolizes. To consolidate its occupation, India has also embarked of transforming occupied Jammu and Kashmir from a Muslim-majority State to a Hindu-majority territory, in blatant violation of Security Council resolutions, the Fourth Geneva Conventions and international law. Indian authorities are issuing millions of fake domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris, seizing and selling off their land and gerrymandering electoral constituencies through its so-called Delimitation Commission, to reduce Muslim representation and install a Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh puppet government in Srinagar.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“They have resorted to cordon-and-search operations, extrajudicial killing of innocent Kashmiris, collective punishments by destroying entire Kashmiri neighbourhoods and villages, violence against peaceful protestors, including the use of pellet guns that have blinded hundreds of Kashmiri children, and arbitrary detention of 13,000 young Kashmiri boys and the entire Kashmiri political leadership. Like other colonialists, India has sought to portray the Kashmiri freedom struggle as terrorism. It is India’s suppression of this legitimate struggle that violates international law and constitutes war crimes. The conviction and sentencing today by an Indian kangaroo court of the Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik is the latest illustration of Indian oppression.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“This is the case when foreign occupation forces resort to the forcible denial of the right of peoples to self-determination and seek to perpetuate their illegal occupation. This is vividly illustrated in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, where the objective of the 900,000 Indian troops is to suppress the demand of the Kashmiri people for freedom and their legitimate right to self-determination, which has been promised to them in the resolutions of the Security Council. Since 5 August 2019, Indian troops have been stationed in every city, town, village and neighbourhood of occupied Kashmir in order to impose what India’s leaders have themselves ominously referred to as a final solution for Jammu and Kashmir.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“As Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs stated the day before yesterday in Davos: “Both the international community and the interim Afghan Government need to revisit their approaches by prioritizing the interests and aspirations of ordinary Afghans.” Together with neighbouring and other countries, Pakistan is working with the interim Afghan Government to address all issues, including the threat posed by terrorist groups. It is only through persistent, patient and prudent engagement that the international community can achieve the shared objectives of a peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan. The question arises on how to protect civilians when the suppression of civilians is the very object of a military’s operations.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We commend the Secretary-General and the United Nations agencies for the extensive humanitarian operation under way in Afghanistan. This has saved millions of Afghan lives. Adequate external support is essential to restoring the banking and financial system, reconstructing infrastructure and reviving the economy, including by the use of the financial assets belonging to Afghanistan. Holding back such support will not promote the international community’s objectives of human rights or counter-terrorism. On the contrary, it may result in the opposite.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We thank the United States delegation for convening this important annual Security Council debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and we thank all the briefers for their insightful briefings. The Secretary-General’s latest report on this item (S/2022/381) paints a very grim picture. In 2021, the United Nations recorded at least 11,075 civilian deaths across 12 armed conflicts. Yet the number of recorded civilian deaths actually declined in comparison to the previous year. This decline was due, in large measure, to the cessation of the conflict in Afghanistan after 15 August 2021. Following 40 years of fighting, there is an opportunity now to restore peace, stability and development in Afghanistan. One Government controls the entire country. There is no civil war and no mass civilian casualties.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Thirdly, the perpetuation of the Israeli occupation will not bring peace to the holy land. If history is a guide, even if they are dispossessed and disempowered by Israel, every succeeding generation of Palestinians will persist in seeking their freedoms and fundamental rights, including their right to self-determination. Finally, the two-State formula, involving the establishment of a sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian State, living side by side with Israel within the recognized and accepted pre-1967 boundaries and with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, offers the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A peace process to achieve that objective must be revived forthwith.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Pakistan believes, first, that there is no question in anyone’s mind that Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, including 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 all constitute grave violations of Security Council resolutions and international law, including humanitarian law. 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 Security Council resolutions is legitimate, while the Israeli repression of the occupied Palestinian people is illegitimate.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“It reiterated the absolute rejection of any attempts to alter the historical and legal status quo of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, including Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, and it called on the international community — most notably the Security Council — to ensure the protection of Palestinian civilians. Those recent actions by Israeli forces are a disturbing codicil to the Israeli aggression against the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque in May last year, which inflamed tensions and triggered the most serious outbreak of hostilities between Palestinians and Israel in several years.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“On 15 April, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation group in New York, in its statement on the situation, condemned the intrusions by Israeli occupation forces and extremist settlers into the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Al-Haram Al-Sharif, which were marked by acts of aggression on worshippers and in violation of the sanctity of the mosque and worship rights therein. It warned of the dire implications of such reckless aggravation of religious sensitivities, which risk further destabilization of this fragile situation and could have a grave impact on regional and international peace and security. It demanded the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces from Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, the immediate release of all detained worshippers and an end to all of those violations.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Pakistan welcomes the convening by the presidency of the United Kingdom of today’s open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We express our grave concern about the most recent developments in the occupied Palestinian territories. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed dozens and injured hundreds of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, through raids and the use of tear gas by drones against innocent worshippers in the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque. Those assaults, coming as they do during the holy month of Ramadan, are egregious violations of humanitarian norms and human rights law.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“There have been references in this Chamber to the plight of women and girls affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Security Council is also preoccupied with the protection of the rights of women and girls in post-conflict Afghanistan. Less visible in the Council’s debates is the ongoing violence against women and girls in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, where there is documented evidence of rape and sexual violence being used as a weapon of war against thousands of women and girls. Their plight should not continue to be ignored. We must overcome double standards in all United Nations processes, including in the Security Council.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Fourthly, countries affected by conflicts require technical support within a culturally sensitive framework in shaping their judicial, legislative and administrative sectors for the empowerment of women. At the same time, all such efforts should be promoted with full respect for State sovereignty and national ownership of policies and programmes. While the Security Council promotes the holistic approach set out in the women and peace and security agenda and the Secretary-General’s report (S/2021/827), it is imperative to address the immediate challenges in numerous situations of conflict where women and girls are endangered and their fundamental rights violated. These challenges should be addressed in a holistic, effective and non-discriminatory manner.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989Resumption1 (2022) · source
“All four pillars of prevention, participation, protection, and relief and recovery must be built for sustained success in realizing the success of the women and peace and security agenda and the objectives of resolution 1325 (2001). We agree with the need to prioritize key enablers. First, women should be part of all conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding efforts. Secondly, during post-conflict reconstruction, women’s participation should be ensured in all relief and recovery programmes and activities with a view to ensuring their economic empowerment and inclusion. Thirdly, international partners, including international financial institutions and the private sector, should promote sustained gender-responsive, community- driven approaches for women’s economic inclusion and participation.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989Resumption1 (2022) · source
“I wish everyone a happy International Women’s Day. I would like to thank the United Arab Emirates presidency for giving my delegation the opportunity to speak during this debate. In Pakistan, women have played and continue to play an important role in every walk of life. Pakistani women have served as Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Assembly, Leader of the Opposition, cabinet ministers, judges, army officers and fighter pilots. Twenty per cent of our diplomats are women and that percentage is increasing. Pakistan has deployed 450 women peacekeepers and their ratio in our contingents is also growing. The women and peace and security agenda remains an important endeavour to promote a comprehensive approach to building peace and security.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Pakistan will continue to work with the Afghan authorities and with the countries of the region and other interested countries to promote the common objectives of peace, stability and prosperity in Afghanistan and the region.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“There are still some who wish to continue using Afghan territory to promote terrorism, including against countries of the region, especially against Pakistan. The international community must encourage and support the efforts of the Afghan authorities to eliminate Da’esh — or the Islamic State-Khorasan Province. Effective strategies are also needed to address other terrorist groups in Afghanistan, in particular Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Al-Qaida. An important element of success will be the early lifting of the sanctions against Taliban members under resolution 1988 (2011), as envisaged in the Doha agreement and resolution 2543 (2020).”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“UNAMA’s new mandate must focus on humanitarian and emergency assistance and the revival of the Afghan economy, as well as on building the capacity of Afghan institutions and facilitating reconstruction and connectivity projects. Political objectives, such as promoting inclusive governance, is the sole purview of Afghanistan and the Afghan authorities. The six-neighbour platform has also helped to move the process in that direction. The platform will meet at the ministerial level in China in the near future. Similarly, UNAMA’s role in monitoring human rights will be inconsistent with its role as a partner for progress in Afghanistan. Security remains of pre-eminent concern for Afghans and their neighbours.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“In that context, the approach and elements for UNAMA’s new mandate, as suggested in the Secretary-General’s report (S/2022/64), raise several questions. In our view, as in the past, UNAMA’s mandate must be based on respect for Afghanistan’s sovereignty. It should be discharged with the consent of the Afghan Government, whether recognized or not. It should be designed to support efforts to promote stability and improve the lives of the Afghan people, including women and children. Any effort to create a parallel governance structure alongside the actual Government is likely to be unacceptable and will erode the trust and cooperation that exists between UNAMA and the authorities in Kabul.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“It is most regrettable that half of the country’s reserves are proposed to be sequestered by another country. Beyond humanitarian help, stabilizing Afghanistan requires reconstruction to rebuild damaged infrastructure and implement connectivity projects, such as the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, the Central Asia-South Asia power project and the Central Asia-Afghanistan-Pakistan railroad, as well as the envisaged extension of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan. UNAMA is playing a constructive role in promoting those objectives and has established constructive engagement and trust with the new authorities in Kabul. We hope that it will continue to play that role.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“To that end, we must address the massive humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and prevent the collapse of the Afghan economy. Pakistan commends the role of the United Nations and its agencies in mobilizing and distributing such assistance. We welcome the generous response to the Secretary-General’s initial appeal and trust that there will be an equally generous response to his new appeal. We hope that the new crises we are now witnessing will not lead to the abandonment of Afghanistan. That mistake was made twice in the past 40 years, with devastating consequences. Reviving the Afghan economy is critical. We welcome United Nations-led efforts to inject cash into the Afghan banking system. In that context, it is vital to release all of Afghanistan’s financial reserves.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“I would like to congratulate the United Arab Emirates on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. I am sure that it will be hugely successful. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Deborah Lyons, for her briefing and for the important work that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is doing under her leadership. We also thank Ms. Mariam Safi for her intervention. After four decades, there is a chance to promote durable peace in Afghanistan. One Government controls the entire country. There is no existential threat to its survival. The main objective of the international community must be to stabilize Afghanistan and ensure durable peace within the country and in the region.”
2022-03-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8984 (2022) · source
“We look forward to the report of the Secretary-General on the new UNAMA mandate, which should enjoy the endorsement and full support of the interim Afghan Government and respect Afghanistan’s sovereignty. As we meet today, there are reasons for concern, and we have heard them. But there are also reasons for optimism. We are encouraged that, after 40 years, there is no internal conflict in Afghanistan. There are no foreign forces in Afghanistan. There is one Government, which controls the entire country. Internal security has improved. And corruption has been curtailed. There is an opportunity for sustained peace in Afghanistan, which can end the suffering of the Afghan people and enhance peace and stability in the entire region. Pakistan has a vital stake in realizing such a vision of peace and stability.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“That should incorporate the expectations of the international community for inclusivity, human and women’s rights and counter-terrorism, as well as the expectations that have been voiced by the interim Afghan Government for economic and financial support, an end to sanctions and eventual recognition. UNAMA is playing an important role at this critical moment of transition. We welcome the close cooperation established between UNAMA and the new authorities. UNAMA will continue to have an important role in the future in coordinating and ensuring timely and expedited delivery of humanitarian and emergency assistance, supporting the revival of the Afghan economy and financial system, building the capacity of Afghan institutions and facilitating the revival and implementation of reconstruction and connectivity projects.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“Pakistan believes that the international community should continue and enhance its engagement with the new Government in Afghanistan, utilizing all available formats — the extended troika, the six-neighbours platform, the OIC and other multilateral and bilateral consultations, such as those convened by Norway earlier this week in Oslo. It is only through dialogue and consultations and mutual persuasion that we will be able to achieve agreed outcomes. Coercion is not the road to peace in Afghanistan. It has not been for the past 20 years, and it will not be in the future. We support the proposal of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to develop a pathway — I call it a road map — to stabilize Afghanistan.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“We are also aware of the assurances that have been provided that the instances of arbitrary arrests and violations of human rights will be investigated. We hope that they will implement those assurances. Pakistan reaffirms the importance of combating terrorism in Afghanistan and ensuring that the territory of Afghanistan is not used as a platform or safe haven by any terrorist group or organization. We are glad that the sponsors of terrorism against Pakistan have been obliged to exit from Afghanistan. It is important that the international community engage with the Taliban in order to develop appropriate modalities for cooperative action against terrorism from Afghanistan. That is a principal priority for Pakistan.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“On 18 and 19 December 2021, together with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan hosted an extraordinary session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to mobilize support for Afghanistan. It has set up an OIC humanitarian trust fund and will help to revive the Afghan banking system. The OIC will work closely with the United Nations in that endeavour. Pakistan supports the objective of an inclusive Government and respect for the human rights of all Afghans, especially those of women and girls. We are aware of the discussions that are taking place in various locations to promote such inclusivity. We hope that they will be a success. We also know of the acting Government’s assurances with regard to the provision of education for girls. We look forward to the reopening of girls’ schools next month.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“That money is critically needed to sustain, stabilize and revive the Afghan economy and to save the lives of millions of poor and hungry Afghan children, women and men. That would be the most effective and generous display of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. Pakistan is doing all it can to help our Afghan brothers and sisters. We have provided $30 million in food and other assistance. We have established a land and air bridge for Afghanistan. We are helping to restore hospitals and other facilities. We have opened our borders for Afghans in need of medical support. And, of course, we will continue to care for the nearly 4 million Afghan refugees until they are able to return to their homes.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“While there was never any doubt that the targeted sanctions against certain individuals and entities in Afghanistan should not prevent the provision of humanitarian, economic or development assistance to Afghanistan, the adoption of resolution 2615 (2021) has reaffirmed and clarified that understanding. Pakistan believes that all actors can now undertake their actions in Afghanistan without fear of arbitrary censure or restraints. We welcome the release of some funds by the World Bank and urge that the rest of the allocations for Afghanistan be released forthwith. Above all, it is vital to unfreeze Afghanistan’s reserves. There is no legal justification for depriving the Afghan people of their national assets.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“We commend the leadership of the Secretary- General in mobilizing international support for the Afghan people and the critical help being provided by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other United Nations bodies and non-governmental international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the Afghan people. We hope and trust that the international community will respond positively and generously to the United Nations humanitarian and refugee response appeals first launched by the Secretary-General on 11 January and today in the context of the One-UN Transitional Engagement Framework, which he has announced.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“Owing to the cumulative impact of conflict, drought, external dependency and sequestered assets, millions of Afghan men, women and children are, as the Secretary-General has described, in a race against time to avoid deaths from hunger amid a brutal winter. As the Secretary-General has himself put it, freezing temperatures and frozen assets are a lethal combination. Without humanitarian assistance, chaos and renewed conflict could return to Afghanistan, with an exodus of refugees and an escalation of the terrorist threat.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“I would like to express my gratitude to you, Madam President, for having convened this debate on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and to the Prime Minister of Norway for his participation. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Ms. Deborah Lyons, for their important briefings. I also welcome the powerful message that Ms. Mahbouba Seraj has conveyed, as well as the interesting statement by my dear brother from Afghanistan, Mr. Faiq. We have listened to two citizens of Afghanistan. I believe that our debate would have been more interactive and more productive if we had also been able to listen to a representative of the interim Government of Afghanistan so that we could achieve some progress through these discussions.”
2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8954 (2022) · source
“First, does India prescribe and subscribe to Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations, which states, “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.” Does India subscribe to that Article of the Charter? Secondly, will India’s leaders condemn the call for genocide against the Muslims that was issued on 17 December 2021in Haridwar in the state of Uttarakhand? Does the Indian Government condemn that call for genocide? Those are my two questions.”
2022-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8953Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The representative of India has repeated well-worn assertions. The fact of the matter is that terrorism in South Asia originates in India. They have sponsored terrorism in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and all other neighbours and history will attest to that. With regard to Jammu and Kashmir, it is a territory the destiny of which, as the Security Council has stated, should be decided by its people through a free and fair plebiscite conducted un-der the auspices of the United Nations. It is not an integral part of India. If one looks at any United Nations map, it is stamped as “disputed territory”. It is disputed territory and certainly not a part of India. I will conclude by asking the Indian representative two questions.”
2022-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8953Resumption1 (2022) · source
“With regard to genocide, I would like to draw attention to the anti-Muslim pogrom in New Deli in February 2020, the almost daily cow lynching and targeted killings of Muslims, the 400 at-tacks against Christian churches last year and the open calls for genocide against the Muslims of India issued by extremist Hindutva priests two weeks ago. The Security Council must heed Mr. Gregory Stanton, the Chairman of Genocide Watch, who warned last week, “Genocide can happen in India”.”
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