United Nations (TDI): Pakistan urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to put diplomacy back in the driver’s seat after weeks of blood-spattered headlines from the Middle East.
Addressing a session devoted to the 2015 Iran nuclear accord (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), Pakistan’s UN envoy Asim Iftikhar Ahmad reminded the chamber that, despite the noise of missiles and recriminations, “real progress is impossible unless the parties sit down and talk.”
He noted that a broad majority inside the Council still thinks dialogue is the only workable route.
The speech came only hours after US President Donald Trump proclaimed a “complete and total” Iran-Israel cease-fire, then chastised both capitals for breaking it. Russia, France, Germany and Saudi Arabia quickly applauded the truce, hoping it sticks after 12 bruising days of combat.
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Ambassador Ahmad welcomed the truce, calling it “an opening no one should squander.” He also pressed the Council to shield the International Atomic Energy Agency from political crossfire. Recent airstrikes, he said, were not only illegal under international law but “knocked the IAEA off its rails at the very moment it needed stable tracks.”
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With the JCPOA set to lapse in October 2025, Pakistan backs either reviving the deal or shaping a fresh pact all sides can live with.
Farkhund Yousafzai is an Associate Editor at The Diplomatic Insight.
