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Pakistan angrily reacts to Obama's support for India UNSC seat

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Nov 9, IRNA -- Pakistan Monday angrily reacted to US President Barack Obama’s support to for a permanent seat for India in any reformed Security Council.

President Barack in his address to the Indian Parliament supported India in its bid to secure a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

“ Pakistan believes that US endorsement of India’s bid for its permanent seat in the Security Council adds to the complexity of the process of reforms of the Council,” Pakistan ’s Foreign Office said.

The US President said that the just and sustainable international order that America seeks includes a United Nations that is efficient, effective, credible and legitimate.

'That is why I can say today — in the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed UN Security Council that includes India as a permanent member,' Obama told the Indian Parliament.

The five permanent members of the Security Council are the US, China, France, the United Kingdom and Russia.

The spokesman of Pak Government said that he hopes the United States, which contributed immensely to the founding of the UN system and, in particular, its Charter principles will take a moral view and not base itself on any temporary expediency or exigencies of power politics.

“ India ’s aspirations for recognition as a global power notwithstanding, there are reasons enough to discredit this proposed direction of the process of UNSC reforms such as India ’s conduct in relations with its neighbours and its continued flagrant violations of Security Council resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir,” the spokesman said in a statement.

He said the United States has acknowledged that UN Security Council reform is a difficult process and will take significant time, adding that Pakistan ’s position on UN Security Council’s reforms is based on principles.

“Any reform of the Council that contradicts the very fundamental principles of the UN Charter including the principle of sovereign equality; of equal rights and self-determination; and the principle of collective security would gravely undermine the system of international relations based on the UN Charter principles”.

The Pakistani spokesman said that in a globalized and interdependent world, multilateral cooperation can only flourish, if it is based on respect of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and is consistent with recognized norms of inter-state conduct and international law.