Pakistan's permanent representatives to the United Nations‚ Masood Khan has said that Pakistan has all along played a constructive role at the world body and its election 2 years ago for the 7th time to Security Council is a testimony to the fact.Talking to a 20-member delegation from the ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has voiced “grave concern” at the presence of the Syrian and opposition troops inside the demilitarised area of the Golan Heights that peacekeepers have been monitoring since 1974, calling on both sides to respect the blue helmets’ freedom ...

UNITED NATIONS - A UN spokesman said on Tuesday that the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which monitors the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, can only be terminated by the Security Council.Spokesman Martin Nesirky made the statement when he was ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday night to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country’s longstanding ...

UNITED NATIONS – The Security Council Friday authorized the deployment of an African-led International Support Mission in Mali  to assist the authorities in recovering rebel-held regions in the north and restoring the country's unity.Known as AFISMA, the force will be deployed for an ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas and called on relevant parties "to act seriously" and "in good faith" in order to bring a "sustainable and durable" peace in the region.The 15-member council said in a statement it "deplored the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN Security Council will meet in an emergency session Saturday after UN attack helicopters launched missions against rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, diplomats said. France’s UN mission announced on its Twitter account that it had called for a meeting ...

UNITED NATIONS - Frustrated over its failure to win a permanent seat on the UN Security Council after years of hectic lobbying, India has portrayed the Council as ‘completely out of tune’ with global realities and serving ‘no one’s purpose’, while underscoring the need ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has announced plans to impose sanctions against leaders of the M23 rebel movement for its attacks on civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.And in what appeared to be a rebuke to neighbouring Rwanda, it insisted on an end to outside backing for ...

UNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council Friday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the African regional groups and the UN to present within 45 days a plan for military intervention in Mali to help the transitional government troops retake control of the north from militants.The UN has ...

UNITED NATIONS  - The UN Security Council is poised to adopt a draft resolution paving the way for military intervention in Mali Friday, French officials said. The resolution seeks a detailed plan within 30 days from West Africa’s ECOWAS regional body, the African Union and UN ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously condemned “in the strongest terms” what it described as “terrorist attacks” in the Syrian city of Aleppo earlier this week, a series of coordinated suicide bombings which killed 48 people in the northern ...

LONDON - The UN Security Council has failed to match the courage shown by protesters around the world and is increasingly "unfit for purpose," Amnesty International said in its annual report Thursday.The rights group called for the signing of a strong treaty on the global arms trade when the United ...

UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council has strongly condemned Monday’s attack on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which at least 11 Pakistani peacekeepers were seriously wounded as the 15-member body reacted within hours of the incident.Seven ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned Monday’s attack on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which at least 11 Pakistani peacekeepers were seriously wounded. Seven peacekeepers sustained bullet wounds and several others were ...

UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution authorising the deployment of UN military observers to monitor a ceasefire between the Syrian government and opposition fighters, as Pakistan reaffirmed its support for the UN-Arab League plan for settling the ...

UNITED NATIONS - UN diplomats wrapped up two days of discussions during a weekend retreat held outside New York City in a bid to move forward the process of long-delayed reform of the Security Council, but apparently made no breakthrough.In a concluding statement, General Assembly President Nassir ...

UNITED NATIONS - The Arab League, backed by Western countries, is pushing for a UN Security Council resolution which would call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down to defuse a 10-month-old uprising against his government, a text that Russia has threatened to veto.Asked about ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has stressed the need for reconciling the divergent views on an Arab-European draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council that calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside to defuse a 10-month-old uprising against his government.In all its work, the Council ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan on Thursday urged the Group of Four (G-4) countries - India, Brazil, Germany and Japan - to give up their ‘illusions and dreams’ of securing permanent seats in the UN Security Council and instead show flexibility in their stand to move forward the process of ...

UNITED NATIONS - Germany is pushing European demands for UN Security Council support for a new Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Syria that sees President Bashar al-Assad transferring power to his deputy and a government of national unity within two months.Germany's UN ambassador Peter ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take "resolute action" for the realization of Palestinian people's right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state,Speaking in the 15-nation Council, Pakistan's UN Ambassador Abdullah Hussain ...

UNITED NATIONS - With obviously Kashmir in mind, Pakistan asked the UN Security Council Thursday to implement its resolutions uniformly and without discrimination so as to uphold its credibility."Concerted efforts should be made to ensure that the resolutions and decisions of the Security Council ...

UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan, which has 8,000 troops serving UN peacekeeping missions across Africa, Thursday joined South Africa in sponsoring a resolution calling for enhancing the ties between the UN and the African Union that the 15-member body adopted unanimously.Under the terms of the ...

Describing India as the "greatest democracy on earth", Israel has said it wants New Delhi to become a permanent member of the expanded United Nations Security Council.Welcoming external affairs minister S M Krishna, the first Indian foreign minister to arrive in Israel in over a decade, President ...

UNITED NATIONS  – Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco and Togo, the five new non-permanent members of the 15-nation UN Security Council, on Sunday began to serve their two-year terms.The five new Council members were elected by the UN General Assembly in October 2011. The five ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP) - Pakistan will assume its seat on the UN Security Council, the world body’s power centre, on Sunday (Jan 1, 2012) as a non-permanent member for a two-year term. Pakistan was elected to 15-nation Council in a hard-fought contest last October when 129 out of 193 members of ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to adopt resolution 2011, which gave one-year extension to the US-led 130,000 international force deployed to quell insurgencies in Afghanistan. The resolution welcomed the agreement between Afghanistan and troop-contributing ...

UNITED NATIONS The Security Council has urged Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to form an all-inclusive, broad-based government now that he is assuming his responsibilities as head of State following the surrender of his predecessor, who had until this week refused to cede power after his ...

Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to discharge it's responsibilities by demanding that Israel unconditionally cease building Jewish settlements in occupied territories and resume direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. "Settlement activity is a clear violation of ...