After Pahalgam: UNSC requires de-escalation, asks Pakistan ‘powerful questions’

The UN Safety Council mentioned rising tensions between India and Pakistan at closed-door consultations, the place envoys known as for de-escalation and in addition requested Pakistan “powerful questions”.

Greece, president of the UNSC for the month of Might, had scheduled the assembly on Monday, 5 Might, following a request by Pakistan, which is presently a non-permanent member. The assembly comes days after terrorists killed 26 folks, principally vacationers, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, triggering outrage in India.

The 15-member UNSC didn’t difficulty a press release after the assembly, however Pakistan claimed that its personal goals had been “largely served”.

Assistant secretary-general for the Center East, Asia and the Pacific within the departments of political and peacebuilding affairs and peace operations Khaled Mohamed Khiari of Tunisia briefed the Council on behalf of each departments (DPPA and DPO).

Popping out of the assembly, Khiari stated there was a name for “dialogue and peaceable decision of the battle.” He famous that the “state of affairs is unstable.”

Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, a everlasting consultant of Greece to the United Nations and the present UNSC president, described it as a “productive assembly, useful”.

A Russian diplomat stated, “We hope for de-escalation.”

Sources right here advised PTI that members of the 15-nation Safety Council raised “powerful questions” for Pakistan at its casual session. It was suggested to kind out the problems bilaterally with India, they stated.