Key points
- UNSC resolutions under Article 25 are binding: Ambassador Akram
- Says we need to find a mechanism
- The old item do not die: Pakistan envoy
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has no mechanism by which it can monitor the implementation of resolutions.
Pakistan’s Ambassador Munir Akram’s said this in a statement at the Third Intergovernmental Negotiations (3rd IGN) meeting on Thursday on the cluster discussions on the working methods.
Ambassador to UN
According to the statement posted on X by the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN, the ambassador stated: We need to find a mechanism. Perhaps first and foremost a compendium of unimplemented resolutions of the Security Council, and here I will say that the old item do not die.
The Security Council has no mechanism by which it can monitor the implementation of resolutions. We need to find a mechanism. Perhaps first and foremost a compendium of unimplemented resolutions of the Security Council, and here I will say that the old item do not die.
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— Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN (@PakistanUN_NY) February 28, 2025
Resolutions are binding
Ambasador Akram stated: The Security Council resolutions are not rescinded by non-implementation over time. Security Council resolutions under Article 25 are binding.
“Those have to be implemented, and I think this is an important reform that we need in the Council,” Pakistan’s envoy stressed.
Break the oligopoly
There is most importantly the need for democracy and that democracy can be inducted through the role of elected members in the Security Council, not permanent members. We need to have a larger role for the elected members to break the oligopoly of the P5 in the Security Council.… pic.twitter.com/JPf7yBK2WF
— Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN (@PakistanUN_NY) February 28, 2025
Ambassador Akram stressed that there is most importantly the need for democracy and that democracy can be inducted through the role of elected members in the Security Council, not permanent members. We need to have a larger role for the elected members to break the oligopoly of the P5 in the Security Council.
