By Amjad Qaimkhani
NEW YORK: Pakistan called on the United Nations Security Council to strengthen mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes, warning that delayed diplomacy had often allowed conflicts to deepen and human suffering to increase.
Addressing the Security Council’s open debate on strengthening mechanisms for peaceful dispute resolution in follow-up to Resolution 2788, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad praised Secretary-General António Guterres for his leadership and recommendations aimed at reinforcing the role of diplomacy.
He said the implementation of these recommendations could strengthen not only peaceful dispute settlement mechanisms but also the broader objectives of the UN Charter. He stressed that conflict prevention and resolution must return to the centre of the United Nations’ work and that the promise of Chapter VI of the Charter should be translated into practical action.
Ambassador Asim said Resolution 2788, unanimously adopted during Pakistan’s presidency of the Security Council last year, was based on a simple principle that diplomacy should not become an option only after peace had failed, but should serve as the means to prevent conflicts from reaching that stage.
He said the UN Charter already provided sufficient peaceful mechanisms, including negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement and regional arrangements. The challenge, he added, was the delayed, selective and inconsistent use of these tools.
The Pakistani envoy said the Security Council often became involved only after positions had hardened, trust had eroded and the space for compromise had narrowed. He said the consequences were visible in prolonged conflicts, unresolved disputes and situations of foreign occupation where delays had intensified injustice and suffering.
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