Pakistan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that it “firmly” believes in multilateral cooperation to deal with complex and interlinked challenges, such as the unresolved issues of Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir.
“We reject any uni-polar, bipolar, or so-called multi-polar world dominated by a few powerful states: Such an order contradicts the principle of sovereign equality of states,” Ambassador Usman Jadoon, acting permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, said in a debate on ‘Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order’.
The day-long debate was convened by Russia, the 15-member Council’s president for July. .
“Today,” the Pakistani envoy said, “we face numerous threats, arising from violations of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, great power rivalries, a renewed global arms race, proliferating conflicts and disputes, spreading terrorism, hate, and Islamophobia, organized crime, rising poverty, and growing climate impacts.
