Pakistan begins its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the UNSC

Pakistan begins its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC) on 1 January 2025, with ambassador Munir Akram saying that the Pakistani delegation will play an “lively and constructive” position in addressing key challenges going through the world.

“Our presence shall be felt within the Safety Council,” Akram, Pakistan’s high diplomat on the UN, instructed the state-run APP (Related Press of Pakistan) information company.

As of Wednesday, 1 January, Pakistan will sit on the Safety Council for the 2025–26 time period as a non-permanent member — the eighth time that the nation has had a seat on the 15-member physique’s horseshoe desk.

In June 2024, Pakistan was elected to the council as a non-permanent member with a large majority, polling 182 votes within the 193-member Normal Meeting — way over the required 124 votes representing a two-thirds majority.

“We enter the council at a time of nice geopolitical turbulence, intense competitors between the 2 largest powers, raging wars in Europe, the Center East, Africa and elsewhere and a sharply escalating and multi-dimensional arms race,” Akram stated.

“As a accountable State — the fifth largest by inhabitants — Pakistan will play an lively and constructive position, in accordance with the UN Constitution, to halt wars, promote the pacific settlement of disputes and comprise the detrimental impacts of nice energy rivalries, the arms race, new weapons and domains of battle in addition to the spreading scourge of terrorism,” he stated.