UNSC seat: Pakistan will work with all members especially India, says Abdullah Haroon
Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations, Abdullah Haroon said Pakistan would work with all the members of the Security Council, especially India.
He said that good, working relations are being developed between India and Pakistan.
Haroon also acknowledged differences with United States over militant groups such as Haqqani network.
He said that Pakistan maintains its point of view and the need of the hour is to sit together and resolve the issues.
As reported earlier, Pakistan secured 129 out of 193 votes in the UN General Assembly, exactly the two-thirds majority required to win the seat, to become a non-permanent member, replacing Lebanon, in a term that begins on January 2012 and will end in December 2013.
The seat is on the Asia-Pacific and Africa group, where Pakistan will join India amongst other countries as non-permanent members. Morocco was also elected as a member of the non-permanent seats in the UNSC. Pakistan’s sole competitor for the Asia-Pacific seat Kyrgyzstan managed to garner 55 votes.
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Since, the choice was between Kazakhstan and Pakistan, then obviously, most countries would choose Pakistan. That is a no brainer. However, that 1/3 chose to vote against it is a bad sign.
“The UNSC is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. “
All the members (Pakistan included) of this organization do have a global responsibility for this Peace and Security.
From the present discussion, it appears that Pakistan only worries for its own Boundary Security. The Peace and Security of the people (Pakistanis included) is not the preoccupation of the Ruling Establishment of Pakistan.
@Bangladeshi welcome to the age of information... simply google and you will be enlighten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedNationsSecurityCouncilelection,_2010
FYI, getting a non-permanent UNSC seat will not guarantee IMF and WB will go easy on Paksitan, or that Friends Of Pakistan(FOP) will give freebies.
@D C Bhardwaj: I don’t know India supported Pak in UN if India did this we must well and appreciate this....
@Bangladeshi: India voted for Pakistan. Are you from Bangladesh or West Punjab?
Pakistan is an inverted optical image of India. Those with some knowledge of optics would know that the inverted optical image will always move in opposite direction. Through intelligent coordinated moves one can make the image dance as one wants. Depending upon the situations one can make image look even bigger than the object. However, image remains image and can never be the object. Remove the lens and the image will disappear. Pakistan is an interesting experiment and so far its going exactly as per theoretical predictions.
@Bangladeshi:
Improve your Gk. India got 187 votes out of 192 last time and got elected to the UN non permanant membership. Have some knowledge before passing some comments.....sutharja bidu
Friends INDIA also supported PAKISTAN to win this seat in UN that must be welcomed by all.
@Ashok Sai Coming From an INDIAN We can understand it :P
Now that is spoken like a good boy. Keep it up.
@Eeman: As much as I'm splitting hairs... more accurately 66.67% either wanted it there, or just didn't care one way or another considering the competition.
Rise, Pakistan Rise. Break out of Shell to move forward toward a Peaceful Nation. Join the commity of Economic Advancing nations. Rise Pakistan.
Well, we voted for you guys, so that should definitely constitute better working relations.
I don't know why they need to mention India specially in this statement while they know very well that their cordiality for India never brought any good for them in past.
This proves that we are not alone and many are still there who like us. Lot of credit also goes to our Foreign Minister, Mr. Abdullah Haroon and finally to our present government which is though fighting war against terrorism with all odds against them due to our own home grown outfits apart from doing the same against foreign terrorist groups which are funded from abroad. I hope this position will be used for the betterment of our country and expectations from international community. It is time for all heads to sit together for the common cause and that is strengthening Democracy.
This is a positive step and must be taken as golden chance.
@ashok sai: well the obvious reason why 1/3 countries dont want Pakistan in SC is because it is a Muslim country and it wont support sanctions against Iran and Syria !!!! btw still 66.67% want us :p so its an excellent victory considering the fact we won with 2/3 votes !!!!
All in this day when Clinton is in Pakistan, Pres Obama’s announcement of withdrawing of over 140,000 BOOTS from Iraq, Pakistan winning a seat as non-permanent member of UNSC, Pakistan’s envoy to the United Nations, Abdullah Haroon said Pakistan would work with all the members of the Security Council ESPECIALLY India and a large-scale military operation has been launched in all the disturbed areas of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency
So the carrot and boots did finally work.
Ashok, implies that, 66.67% of the countries wanted Pakistan to be in UNSC.
I hope that this will be translated and PRINTED WORD BY WORD in the Urdu newspapers.
Kyrgyzstan obtained 55 votes, a tiny country approximately about 6 millions population with no cards to play in the international communities, its telling a truth, 1/3 of countries don't want Pakistan to be in UNSC.