{"id":39698,"date":"2026-02-21T16:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=39698"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:06:55","slug":"pakistan-proposes-increase-in-elected-non-permanent-members-of-unsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/39698","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan proposes increase in elected, non-permanent members of UNSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Pakistan has proposed a meaningful increase in the number of elected, non-permanent members of the UN Security Council to make it more democratic, accountable and representative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The proposal was put forward by Pakistan&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad while speaking during the second Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador emphasized reforms in the UN Security Council must not result in expanded exclusivity or privilege. In this context, he reiterated Pakistan&#8217;s longstanding position that expansion of the veto is neither desirable nor feasible.<\/p>\n<p>Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that any viable reform model must ensure genuine rotation and equitable regional representation.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, can only be achieved through a reasonable expansion in elected, non-permanent seats including longer-term and regular two-year terms particularly to address the under-representation of certain regions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Pakistan has proposed a meaningful increase in the number of elected, non-permanent members of the UN Security Council to make it more democratic, accountable and representative. The proposal was put forward by Pakistan&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad while speaking during the second Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting. The Ambassador emphasized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1482,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-un","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39698\/revisions\/39700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}