United Nations:
Pakistan in the present day changed Japan for a seat on the world’s topmost diplomatic physique – the UN Security Council. Islamabad will occupy one of many two seats from the Asia-Pacific area (South Korea being the opposite) for 2 years beginning in the present day.
Pakistan will even preside over the council in July when it is going to be the Chair. This will permit Islamabad to set the United Nations Security Council agenda. In addition to this, Islamabad finds itself holding one other essential put up after it secured a seat on the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee, which is accountable for designating people and teams as terrorists and imposing sanctions.
This new two-year tenure as a non-permanent member can be Pakistan’s eighth time period on the prime UN physique. It comes at a major time, when central and west Asia is experiencing political and humanitarian crises – the struggle in Gaza, disaster in Lebanon, heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, the regime change in Syria, and the battle between Azerbaijan and Armenia, to call just a few.
Europe too is reeling beneath extreme financial pressure of the years-long Russia-Ukraine struggle. In East Asia, there are severe considerations over China’s risk to Taiwan and North Korea’s army rise whereas South Korea is imploding from one in every of its worst political crises. China additionally has severe variations with Philippines and Vietnam resulting in naval face-offs.
But maybe the obvious of Pakistan’s agendas will likely be to rake up its rhetoric about Kashmir. Islamabad’s envoy to the United Nations has already hinted this in his remarks after Pakistan assumed the seat on the UN Security Council. “We will proceed to focus on” the Kashmir subject “and push for concrete steps from the worldwide neighborhood,” stated Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram.
As a non-permanent member of the Security Council, Pakistan is not going to have veto rights, however it’s going to have a major say in issues resembling designating terrorists and wield affect over the sanctions committee.
Pakistan’s two-year time period additionally coincides with talks to reform the UN Security Council with India aiming to develop into a everlasting member with full veto rights. Islamabad will seemingly do all it could actually to hinder the method and push again New Delhi’s makes an attempt to realize a rightful seat on the council. India, being the world’s most populous nation, and one of many main international economies, with a confirmed track-record has been persisting for the “much-needed reforms”.
Islamabad has already stated that it’s going to strongly oppose the addition of any new everlasting members, and can favour the enlargement of the non-permanent class as a substitute.
Islamabad has additionally stated that as one of many 5 non-permanent members of the Security Council from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation or OIC nations, Pakistan will goal to develop into the ‘Voice of the Muslim World’, fairly like India being the ‘Voice of the Global South’.