New York: At the United Nations, Pakistan has highlighted the urgent need to promote dialogue and diplomacy, discard zero-sum approaches, shun confrontation, and advance mutually beneficial cooperation against the backdrop of an increasingly polarized and fractured international environment.

According to Radio Pakistan, this was stated by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, while delivering Pakistan’s statement at the UN Security Council’s Arria Formula meeting, convened by China. He emphasized that the world today stands at a crossroads with wars, inequality, economic instability, and climate catastrophe threatening peace and security. The ambassador asserted the necessity to revive faith in multilateralism and collective action.

The Pakistan UN Ambassador remarked that the United Nations was created to protect and promote the interests of all nations, big and small, founded as it was on the spirit of cooperation and the common good of humanity, rather than to serve the interests of the powerful.

In sharing Pakistan’s proposals to strengthen multilateralism, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar called on the world to recommit to international law and the principles of the UN Charter, underscoring that these principles are the foundation of a just world order, not merely optional ideals.

He further advocated for reforms in the international trading system to better reflect the aspirations and needs of developing countries.