NEW YORK: Pakistan has urged the United Nations Security Council UNSC) to ensure the implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir dispute and press India to stop gross human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
“UNSC by implementing its resolutions over the Kashmir issue and deliver upon its commitment to peace in the region and “prove that multilateral-ism can succeed”, said Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Foreign Minister during his address to UNSC.
Speaking on “Reformed Multilateral-ism” in the Security Council, the foreign minister said that there was an agenda item left unaddressed by the UNSC — the issue of Kashmir.
“We believe it a multinational agenda — an agenda of this UNSC — and if you want to see the success of the multilateral institution or multilateral-ism and the success of this very Council, surely you can aid in this process; allow the implementation of the resolutions of the UNSC, when it comes to the question of Kashmir, prove the multilateral-ism can succeed, prove that the UNSC can succeed and deliver peace in the region,” he added.
He said that Pakistan believed that further democratization of UN, UNSC and General Assembly would empower this institution and provide it with the moral authority to act. “It would serve the institution to further democratize and to allow the sovereign quality of all and not the superiority of some.”
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