ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution expressing concern over the US support for India’s bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
The House urged the international community to take notice of India’s human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. The joint resolution moved by Shahnaz Wazir Ali says, “This decision has grave ramifications for the direction and prospects of the system of multilateral cooperation as envisaged by the founding fathers of the UN Charter.
It also has implications for peace and security and stability in Asia, particularly South Asia. It is incomprehensible that the US has sought to support India, whose credentials with respect to observing UN Charter principles and international law are at best checkered. This is most explicitly illustrated by India’s disregard of Security Council Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir and gross and systematic violations of the fundamental human rights of the Kashmiri people.”
It adds that the “future of UN and of succeeding generations cannot and must not be premised on considerations of power politics, politics of expediency, bereft of morals and ideals, which must be the guiding spirit for an enlightened international order. Pakistan, along with a large number of members of the international community, supports a principled process of reform of the Security Council.
This process should be based on respect for the cardinal principles of UN Charter including the principle of sovereign equality of states”. Later, in conformity with the unanimous resolution, the sense of parliament was conveyed to the US administration. The Foreign Office said this in a statement issued late on Friday.
