FM Bilawal urges UNSC to implement resolutions on Kashmir dispute

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (SABAH): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to implement its resolutions over the Kashmir dispute and deliver upon its commitment to peace in the region and ‘prove that multilateralism can succeed’.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speaking on International peace and security Reformed Multilateralism in the Security Council, said that there was an agenda item left unaddressed by the UNSC, the issue of Kashmir.

“We believe it a multinational agenda, an agenda of this UNSC and if you want to see the success of the multilateral institution or multilateralism and the success of this very Council, surely you can aid in this process; allow the implementation of the resolutions of the UNSC, when it comes to the question of Kashmir, prove the multilateralism can succeed, prove that the UNSC can succeed and deliver peace in the region,” he added.

Bilawal Bhutto said that Pakistan believed that further democratization of the UN and the UNSC and the General Assembly would empower this institution and provide it a moral authority to act. “It would serve the institution to further democratize and to allow the sovereign quality of all and not the superiority of some.”

“It does not serve the purposes of the UN to add more members to its elitist club and to expand the tyrannical power of veto,” he said. The foreign minister said the Security Council has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.