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Pakistan thanks India for helping it to UNSC seat
Saturday October 29, 2011 02:05:43 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Pakistan
Saturday said India played a major role in supporting its
successful bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security
Council.
"Many of the countries that Pakistan considered friends were no
longer friends of the country. But India supported us in becoming
a non-permanent member of the 15-member Security Council and
played a major role," Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Abdullah
Hussain Haroon was quoted as saying by Geo News.
Pakistan -- which was challenged by Kyrgyzstan -- was backed by
129 of the 193 member states in the General Assembly. Kyrgyzstan
secured 55 votes. Pakistan will Jan 1 next year replace Lebanon,
which currently occupies the Asian seat, for a two-year term.
"I think we should not be discouraged by the reaction by some of
the nations in the UN because I can say the world wants Pakistan
to play a positive role in the global scenario," Haroon said.
The UN Security Council has five veto-holding permanent members --
the US, Britain, France, Russia and China -- and 10
temporary-elected members without veto power.
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