UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO HOLD CLOSED CONSULTATIONS ON INDIA-PAKISTAN SITUATION TODAY

Mon 05 May 2025:

The UN Security Council will convene closed-door consultations on Monday, May 5, 2025, to discuss rising tensions between India and Pakistan.

The meeting was scheduled after Pakistan, currently a non-permanent member of the 15-nation Council, formally requested an emergency session. Greece, which holds the Council presidency for May, confirmed the meeting would take place in the afternoon.

The Security Council comprises five permanent members with veto power — China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. — and ten non-permanent members: Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia.

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Following the April 22 militant attack in Pahalgam and the subsequent rise in tensions between India and Pakistan, the President of the UN Security Council for May, Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris of Greece, addressed the possibility of a Council meeting on the matter.

Speaking last week, Sekeris stated, “then… I think this meeting should take place because, as we said, maybe it’s also an opportunity to have views expressed and this might help to diffuse a bit of tension,” if a formal request were submitted to discuss the situation.

“We are in close contact…but this is something which might happen, I would say, sooner rather than later. We will see, we are preparing,” Sekeris had said to PTI news agency.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar instructed Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN ambassador Asim Iftikhar to urgently initiate efforts to convene a Council meeting, according to Radio Pakistan.

“Pakistan will inform the UN Security Council about India’s aggressive actions, provocations, and inflammatory statements,” it said.

Tensions are running high between nuclear-armed neighbors over the last month’s attack at touristic resort of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The report said Islamabad “will specifically highlight India’s illegal measures aimed at suspending the Indus Water Treaty.”

Notably, Pakistan is currently one of 10 non-permanent members of the Council.

India blamed Pakistan, for the Pahalgam attack, saying it had “cross-border links.” Islamabad denied and instead offered a neutral probe with third-party monitoring.

Both countries have taken diplomatic measures against each other, including canceling visas for each other’s citizens and recalling some diplomatic staff.

India also suspended its participation in the Indus Waters Treaty, a 1960 water use and distribution agreement with Pakistan.

At the Council, the report said: “Pakistan will make it clear that how India’s aggressive actions are endangering peace and security in South Asia and beyond.”

Continuing its diplomatic efforts to calm down the situation, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Sunday spoke with his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim during which he expressed Pakistan’s deep concerns regarding the escalating tensions in South Asia due to India’s “provocative actions ”following the Pahalgam incident.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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