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lines on the record: 26
first: 2022-05-19
most recent: 2023-03-07
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“Pakistan also supports effective implementation of other measures in the Council’s resolutions on women and peace and security: the deployment of women protection advisers, a larger role for United Nations women peacekeepers, especially in leadership positions, addressing the root causes of conflict, increasing the resources for women in conflict zones, providing for a stronger and equal role for women in the prevention of conflict, the delivery of relief and recovery assistance, in forging lasting peace and in promoting the peaceful resolution of conflicts in accordance with the United Nations Charter and Security Council resolutions by utilizing the various mechanisms available under the Charter.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“To ensure the implementation of the women, peace and security strategy, it is essential to establish monitoring mechanisms for crimes committed against women and girls in territories under foreign occupation, including occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Security Council called for improved monitoring in resolution 1888 (2009), through the deployment to conflict areas of military and gender adviser teams, and in resolution 1960 (2010), where it endorsed measures to end the impunity of perpetrators. These provisions must be implemented.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The most egregious autocracies arise from — and the worst crimes against women and girls occur in — situations of foreign occupation and suppression of the right to self-determination of peoples. In this regard, the very object of violence is to suppress the civilian population, which is manifest most vividly in the occupied Palestinian territories and occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The women and peace and security strategy will remain incomplete and unfulfilled so long as the acute dimensions of the plight of women under foreign occupation are not addressed frontally and vigorously. Above all, occupation forces must be held accountable.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We have yet to implement the strategy to prevent wars, erase the suffering they cause, establish accountability for the crimes against women and girls, and empower women through skills, access and leadership to contribute to prevention, recovery and redressing their imposed and disproportionate suffering. We are disappointed at the restrictions imposed on education and work on women and girls in Afghanistan. The right of women and girls to access all levels of education and work is a fundamental right in keeping with Islamic injunction. We urge the de facto authorities to take steps towards resumption of female education and allow women to contribute to Afghan society.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Almost 90 States have adopted national action plans to protect women and girls and empower them to contribute to preventing and responding to conflict, war and violence. The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict has helped to enhance recognition of this challenge. The larger presence and role of women peacekeepers has visibly contributed to preventing and containing conflicts and violence and crimes against women. Yet we are far from realizing the objectives of the women and peace and security agenda. The sombre reality is that women continue to be the principal victims of war and conflict. We hear the cries of mothers, sisters and daughters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Africa, who are suffering from the consequences of wars that have been imposed on them.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I would like to thank you, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mozambique, for convening this open debate on women and peace and security on the eve of International Women’s Day. The world today is facing a pandemic of conflict, violence, war, hate, extremism and terrorism. Despite the Geneva Conventions, civilians are increasingly the primary targets of war and violence. As the Council’s landmark resolution 1325 (2000) observed, women and girls suffer disproportionately and inordinately from war, conflict and violence. The strategy adopted in resolution 1325 (2000) and the 10 subsequent resolutions on women and peace and security have served to enhance national and international recognition on the challenges and their manifestations.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“If we want to see multilateralism and multilateral institutions, including the Security Council, succeed, then surely you can aid in that process and enable the implementation of Security Council resolutions when it comes to the question of Kashmir. You, Madam, can prove that multilateralism can succeed and that under your worthy presidency, the Security Council can succeed and deliver peace in our region.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Pakistan has convened a ministerial conference with the Group of 77 and China for tomorrow and the day after to adopt a plan for emergency action and systematic reform of the international financial, trade and technology architectures in order to ease the suffering of a billion people in the Global South and realize the Sustainable Development Goals and environmental objectives. Finally, in your concept note (see S/2022/880), Madam President, you call on us to advise and suggest ways and means to move the multilateralism reform agenda forward. There is an item on the Security Council’s agenda left unaddressed that we believe to be a multilateral matter.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“It would numerically and politically expand the influence and role of elected members in relation to the existing five permanent members and preserve the principle of sovereign equality. All our endeavours to promote world order, peace and stability will come to naught unless we can realize the Charter’s second objective — universal socioeconomic development. As a result of the coronavirus disease pandemic, raging conflicts and the more frequent and ferocious impacts of climate change, nearly 100 developing countries are in extreme economic distress.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“In the past, the Security Council has been unable to act due to differences among its permanent members. Adding new permanent members would multiply the possibility of paralysis in the Security Council. The problem cannot be the solution. And surely, States with a record of not implementing Council resolutions cannot be considered worthy of consideration for any form of Council membership. The proposal of the Uniting for Consensus (UFC) group to create 11 additional non-permanent elected seats on the Council offers the most realistic option for equitable and speedy reform. The UFC model would provide equitable representation for all Member States and regions, including Africa. Periodic elections would enhance the accountability of Council members.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Adding new permanent members would numerically reduce the opportunities for the vast majority of Member States to be represented on the Council. We must adhere to the principle of the sovereign equality of all, not the superiority of some. Surely we all believe that a further democratization of the United Nations, including the Security Council and the General Assembly, is what would empower this institution and provide it with the moral authority to act. It would not serve the purposes of the United Nations to add more members to this elitist club and expand the power of the tyrannical veto. It would serve this institution to further democratize it and, as I said, to allow for the principle of the sovereign equality of all, not the superiority of some.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The Secretary-General should be more insistent in exercising his authority under Article 99 of the Charter to draw the Council’s attention to impending threats to peace and security, and no party to a conflict or dispute should be able to refuse the Secretary-General’s good offices when they are offered or reject recourse to the modalities for the pacific settlement of disputes prescribed under Article 8 of the Charter. The Security Council should unquestionably reflect contemporary global realities. The most significant changes in those realities include the emergence of a United Nations membership now composed of 193 mostly small and medium-size States and the need for their equitable representation through expansion of the Security Council.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“In accordance with their obligation under Article 25 of the Charter, Member States must implement the decisions of the Council. The Security Council must act not only after a conflict has erupted, but pre-emptively, to prevent and avert conflicts before they occur. The Council should be enabled to meet automatically, without a procedural decision, on any item that is already on its agenda if a Council member or concerned State requests.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Multilateralism must be based on universal and consistent adherence to the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations — the self- determination of peoples; refraining from the use or threat of use of force; refraining from the acquisition of territory by force; respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States and non-interference in their internal affairs. Strict adherence to the principles of the Charter has become all the more essential in the context of recent and ongoing conflicts. The Council must seek to resolve conflicts and disputes, not merely manage them. It should address the underlying causes of conflicts, such as foreign occupation and suppression of the recognition of a people’s right to self-determination.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Multilateral solutions under the umbrella of the Security Council offer the most effective approach to promoting peace and resolving conflicts. Parties to a dispute cannot advocate multilateral processes and reform one day and insist on bilateral avenues the next — nor, ultimately, impose unilateral solutions. Pakistan firmly believes that the major security problems, including those in our region, Madam President, can be effectively and peacefully resolved through the active involvement of the Security Council and the Secretary- General.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The world must also turn its attention away from pursuing narrow national ambitions and, first and foremost, confront, collectively and multilaterally, the existential threats that the human race faces, whether it is in the shape of the coronavirus disease pandemic, climate catastrophe and climate change, the nuclear threat, terrorism and extremism or the increasing propensity for narrow-minded populism, authoritarianism and religious intolerance. We must confront the rise in the ideologies of hate, xenophobia, Islamophobia, populist extremism and racial and religious intolerance, which inflict discrimination, violence and even threats of genocide on vulnerable minorities in certain countries. The Security Council has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“It is therefore of vital importance to empower and efficiently utilize all the main organs of the United Nations — the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Human Rights Council, the International Court of Justice and the Secretary General and the Secretariat of the United Nations. We must also induce equality and democracy into the structures of global financial and economic governance, especially the Bretton Woods institutions. The General Assembly, which is the most universal global forum, must play a central role in reinforcing multilateralism and enhancing equity and justice in international relations.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Today’s open debate gives me the opportunity to comment on and respond to the concept note (S/2022/880, annex) and the related questions circulated by the Indian presidency of the Security Council. In our complex world, which is confronted by multiple threats and challenges, inclusive multilateral processes within the framework of the United Nations offer the most promising prospects for promoting peace and security, economic and social development, and effective responses to the several interlocking global challenges we face.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“I would like to start by congratulating you, Madam President, on India’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. We are at the United Nations in our capacity as Chair of the Group of 77 and China to continue to pursue an extensive agenda for the developing world based on multilateralism. I am proud to say that with Pakistan as Chair of the Group of 77 and China and Egypt as President at the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27), we saw a victory for multilateralism, for the developing world and for climate justice, with the addition of “loss and damage” to the COP 27 agenda and the commitment to establishing a loss and damages funding facility. There are indeed many benefits of multilateralism, and they are quite evident.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“We just witnessed how, after decades of conflict, ultimately dialogue and diplomacy were the path to a conclusion. From our own experience, we most humbly and respectfully appeal to the Council to deploy dialogue and diplomacy in the pursuit of peace before, and not after, the next great war. Save another generation of humankind from the misery of conflict, and then watch as a new generation unlocks its true potential. We can rise to the challenges of our time. We can be the generation that ends hunger. We can be the generation that saves our planet. We can be the generation that breaks the cycle, if the Council allows us to do so.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“Millions have died; people continue to die. The health and economic toll of the pandemic will outlast the pandemic itself. Our continents are sinking. Our planet is under threat. Is it not the time to rise above the conflicts of man and face the threats to humankind? They say history repeats itself — first, as tragedy and then as farce. They say that when new wars end, old wars return. At the end of the Cold War, we saw the beginning of what was to become the new war. Afghanistan was abandoned, and out of the wreckage emerged the Taliban, Al-Qaida, extremism and terrorism. Today Afghanistan runs the risk of being abandoned yet again, and we find ourselves at the precipice of what many fear may be a new era of great Power conflict. Pakistan has seen the costs of war up close. We are exhausted by conflict.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“It leads the youth of Kashmir to ask the question who will resolve the conflict. Who will deliver the peace they were promised? We challenge those who worry about food security to resolve the Kashmir dispute, open the doors to peace in South Asia and watch how the farmers of Pakistan and India can feed the world. Even those not directly involved in a conflict pay the price of war. The conflict in Ukraine means that many across the world will become food insecure and risk going hungry. Pakistan relied heavily on wheat and fertilizer from the region. Our farmers are suffering, and so are our people. The price of such conflicts is paid at the petrol pump and at the grocery store. For everyone who finds it difficult to make ends meet, things just became much more difficult. We are in the middle of the deadliest pandemic of our time.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“The people in the occupied territories in Palestine and Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir are constantly imprisoned by perpetual conflict. They are arbitrarily and inhumanely suffering immense misery, including hunger. Kashmir has become a symbol of the dysfunction of this institution and the Council. The actions on 5 August 2019 and 5 May 2022 by India in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir are not only an assault on the people of Kashmir, but an assault on the United Nations, the Security Council and its resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention. They highlight the inaction of this body as the internationally recognized disputed status of the region is undermined, and as the Muslim majority of Kashmir are being turned into a minority on their own land, in their own home.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“That initiative will go a long way in addressing the immediate crises of food security, and the leadership behind such humanitarian efforts must be appreciated. The Call to Action will help ramp up food production, help keep supply chains open and address blockages, mobilize financial and agricultural resources to where they are needed, help poor farmers expand local production and much more. Pakistan looks forward to playing its active part in this bold Call to Action. We also look to the United Nations to provide the leadership to address the root causes of food insecurity and conflict. The people of Ukraine go hungry due to the ongoing conflict. Some 95 per cent of the people of Afghanistan are under the threat of poverty as a direct result of conflict.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“Meanwhile, with rising great Power rivalries, political dialogue has frequently frozen, and the Security Council has often been paralysed. Old conflicts have festered, and new conflicts have emerged, eroding the edifice of the world order established 76 years ago by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Indeed, the United Nations was founded for that very purpose — to resolve conflicts, end wars, make peace and battle hunger, poverty and desperation. Some 80 per cent of the 800 million undernourished people and the 40 million facing famine inhabit countries riven by conflict or emerging from conflict. Just yesterday, we participated in the ministerial meeting on the Global Food Security Call to Action.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source
“I am honoured and humbled to represent my country as Foreign Minister at this forum. Pakistan welcomes today’s timely debate on global food security and conflict. Throughout history, hunger and war have been grim handmaidens. Although the world has progressed in promoting prosperity, the systemic causes of conflict and poverty have yet to be overcome. Inequality and insecurity are the hallmarks of our era. In this decade of action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we have instead confronted a series of disasters — the coronavirus disease pandemic, economic recession, spiralling prices and the escalating impacts of climate change. Those disasters have reversed global growth and, for the first time in 30 years, increased poverty and hunger.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036 (2022) · source