ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China co-organised an informal meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), providing a platform for member states to discuss how the council ‘can ensure the full, effective and nonselective implementation of its resolutions’, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday.
UN Assistant SecretaryGeneral Khaled Khiari, UNSC Report Executive Director Shamala Kandiah and Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group briefed the meeting, which was held on Tuesday.
They ‘emphasised that implementation lies at the heart of the Council’s credibility, authority and effectiveness’, the FO said.
The speakers stressed that UN resolutions must be accompanied by ‘realistic mandates, clear implementation pathways, sustained reporting, adequate resources, political will and followup mechanisms’ to translate them int o practical action on the ground.
Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, said UNSC resolutions were legal obligations under the UN Charter.
‘He underscored that selective or prolonged non-implementationweakens the Council’s authority, prolongs unresolved disputes and deepens human suffering, including in situations such as Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Palestine,’ the FO said.
Kashmir dispute The ambassador said the nonimplementation of UN resolutions on the decades-long Jammu and Kashmir dispute had left the conflict unresolved and prolonged the suffering of the Kashmiri people.
In the meeting, ‘Pakistan also proposed practical measures, including an annual review of unimplemented and partially implemented resolutions, clearer implementation pathways, stronger follow-up’, as well as better alignment of peace operations and regional arrangements with council decisions.
The FO further said that council members and other UN member states participating in the meeting welcomed the initiative by China and Pakistan, sharing ‘concrete perspectives on strengthening the implementation of Security Council resolutions across country-specific and thematic situations’.
The member states stressed that the UNSC’s decisions should be realistic, actionable and backed by sustained diplomacy, calling for regular reviews, timely reportingand adequateresources.
‘By jointly convening this timely discussion, China and Pakistan reaffirmed their shared commitment to multilateralism, the authority of the Security Council, and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,’ the FO noted.