“Our presence will be felt in the Security Council,” Ambassador Akram, Pakistan’s top diplomat at the UN, told state-run APP (Associated Press of Pakistan) news agency.
Pakistan will sit in the Security Council for the 2025-26 term as a non-permanent member – the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the 15-member body’s horseshoe table.
In June, Pakistan was elected to the council with a massive majority as a non-permanent member, polling 182 votes in the 193-member General Assembly – far more than the required 124 votes representing a two-thirds majority.
“We enter the council at a time of great geopolitical turbulence, intense competition between the two largest powers, raging wars in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere and a sharply escalating and multi-dimensional arms race,” Akram said.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar said that Pakistan begins its term as a non-permanent member of the UNSC with a rich legacy of experience and commitment to the principles and purposes of the UN Charter.
He was addressing a reception hosted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
The event was attended by the heads of resident missions of the UN Security Council Member States in Islamabad and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
