The Pakistani delegation informed a TASS correspondent that the UN Security Council will convene on Monday, May 5, to discuss the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.
“Pakistan has formally asked the UN Security Council to hold emergency private consultations. Following the meeting, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, will speak [to reporters], the mission stated.
At the moment, Pakistan is a non-permanent member of the influential 15-nation Security Council, which Greece is chairing for May.
The Greek Presidency has set a meeting for May 5 in the afternoon after Islamabad “requested closed consultations” on the tensions between the two nations.
The ten non-permanent members of the Council are Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia, in addition to the five permanent members that have the power of vetoes: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, Greece’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the May Security Council President, stated last week that if a request is made for a meeting to discuss the situation between India and Pakistan, it will be held amid the escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors in the wake of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
