Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday to implement its resolutions on the Kashmir issue and deliver on its commitment to peace in the region and \u201cprove that multilateralism can succeed\u201d.
\nIn his address to the Security Council in New York, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also supported the call for expanding the council but opposed adding new permanent members.
\n\u201cThis council should support negotiations in the relevant bodies to limit and control the nuclear and conventional arms build-up at the global and regional level, including the development and deployment of new weapons and military technologies,\u201d he said.
\nThe nuclear weapons states, he said, must provide binding assurances to non-nuclear states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.
\nBilawal supports call for UNSC expansion, but opposes adding new permanent members
\nThe foreign minister was responding to a concept note, circulated by India that presides over the current session of the UN Security Council, which is debating new orientation for reformed multilateralism.
\nIndian Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar, who addressed the council before his Pakistani counterpart, launched a veiled attack on both China and Pakistan, accusing them of \u201cmisusing multilateral platforms\u201d to promote their interests.
\n\u201cEven as the world is coming together with a more collective response, multilateral platforms are being misused to justify and protect perpetrators of terrorism,\u201d he claimed. This was an apparent reference to China, which has blocked several attempts by India to use the UN platform for defaming Pakistan.
\nOn Tuesday, UN Secretary-General\u2019s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric urged both China and India to ease tensions along the Sino-Indian disputed Himalayan border, after New Delhi claimed its troops clashed with Chinese troops last week.
\nMr Bhutto-Zardari, however, underlined the need to expand, not restrict, multilateralism, as India had suggested. One worthy multilateral task for the world body would be to limit the use of lethal weapons, he said.
\n\u201cNew and lethal weapons which can cause massive and indiscriminate suffering, or which lowers the threshold of conflict, should be prohibited,\u201d the foreign minister added.
\n\u201cDiscrimination in the peaceful uses of nuclear and other technology should be eliminated. The aim must be to assure equal security for all States,\u201d as agreed at the first UNGA special session on disarmament, he said.
\nThe UN General Assembly, he noted, was the most universal global forum and therefore it must play a central role in reinforcing multilateralism and enhancing equity and justice in international relations.
\n\u201cThe world\u2019s attention must also turn away from pursuing narrow national ambitions to addressing the several global threats and challenges we confront: climate change; the nuclear threat; terrorism; refugees and migration; famine and hunger; the misuse of the metaverse,\u201d Mr Bhutto-Zardari said.
\n\u201cMultilateralism\u201d must be based on universal and consistent adherence to the fundamental principles of the UN Charter \u2014 self-determination of peoples, non-use or threat of force, non-acquisition of territory by the use of force, respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States and non-interference in their internal affairs.\u201d
\nThe minister also highlighted the need to democratise the structures of global financial and economic governance, especially the Bretton Woods institutions such as World Bank and IMF.
\nOn Tuesday, the IMF rejected a request from mid and lower-income countries, like Pakistan and Argentina, not to collect surcharge on its loans, providing those countries more space to rebuild their troubled economies.
\nMr Bhutto-Zardari noted that for over 20 years, the UN General Assembly has been engaged in efforts to reform of the Security Council through an expansion in its membership and equitable representation of UN member states.
\nThere are differences within the United Nations on issues like the size of an expanded Council; categories of membership; the use of the veto; regional representation and the working methods of the Council.
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