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US support for India adds to complexity: Pakistan
[Geo TV] Pakistain on Monday said US President Barack B.O.Obama's endorsement of India's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council would add to the "complexity" of efforts to revamp the world body's most powerful organ. Yep. Tightened the old turban right up. In a statement issued shortly after Obama backed India's efforts to get permanent membership of the UN Security Council during an address to Indian Parliament, Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said that the US should revisit its stance and "take a moral view" instead of basing itself on "any temporary expediency". "If they can be on the Security Council why can't we?" "Pakistain 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," the Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said in a statement. "Pakistain hopes that 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," it added. The statement also said that despite India's aspirations "for recognition as a global power", there were "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 and Kashmir". Noting Obama's expression of support for a permanent seat for India in any reformed Security Council, he pointed out that the US itself "has acknowledged that UN Security Council reform is a difficult process and will take significant time". Pakistain's position on UN Security Council reforms is based on principles, the front man said. "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," he said. Posted by: Fred 2010-11-09 |
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