Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK: Pakistan has advocated for the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions that allow the Kashmiri and Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination, citing the unresolved Kashmir and Palestine disputes, arguing that doing so will advance global peace and security.
“The Security Council must actively encourage conflict and dispute resolution, not just manage it, much less ignore it,” The 15-member panel was informed on Thursday by Ambassador Munir Akram, the representative of Pakistan to the UN.
During a discussion on “the Rule of Law among Nations,” he stated that the Council has not been able to achieve consistent implementation of its resolutions, such as the resolutions relating to Palestine or Jammu and Kashmir.
The right to self-determination has been brutally suppressed in numerous instances, the Pakistani envoy continued, and foreign occupation has been allowed to last for years. It is critical to developing the methods by which this idea can be implemented universally and consistently in the contemporary context.”
He emphasized that the Charter explicitly forbids the use of force, aside from self-defense, and that the world community has passed regulations to control the use of force, including military force. Over the past seven decades, it has established guiding principles that have helped to preserve global peace and prevent other world wars.
“UN Security Council resolutions have legal force”
According to Ambassador Akram, the Security Council’s resolutions, whether they are adopted under VI (pacific settlement of disputes) or VII (enforcement action) of the UN Charter, have legal force because Member States are obligated to carry out the Council’s commands under Article 25 of the Charter.
He believes the Secretary-General should be less hesitant to exercise his authority under Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers him to lead the Security Council in responding when and where international peace and security are threatened.
The Pakistani representative said that no party to a conflict or dispute should be permitted to reject the Secretary-“good General’s offices” or arbitration and mediation. And the authority of judicial bodies, particularly the International Court of Justice, should be effectively utilized, for example by making the Court’s jurisdiction over matters on the Security Council’s agenda mandatory.
According to Ambassador Akram, maintaining interpersonal and societal institutions is essential for both the national and international levels of relations.
He claimed that “global peace” and “the international security architecture” are gravely threatened today. Several issues need to be addressed, including how to: — promote the universal and consistent observance of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter; address the root-causes of conflicts and disputes; contain great power tensions, which frequently paralyze the Council; halt the escalating new arms race, including in new weapons and domains; and, empower and fully utilize the UN and its organs to create a long-lasting structure of international peace and security.
