Pakistan Assumes UN Security Council Presidency For July, To Convene Two Events
Pakistan has assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council for July 2025, its first since 2013, an official statement by the country's Foreign Ministry stated.
Pakistan on Tuesday said it has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of July 2025.
According to Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and multiple local media reports, this is Pakistan's first presidency since 2013.
An official statement by the country read that the Presidency will convene two high-level signature events in July – an open debate on July 22, on 'Promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes", and a briefing on 'Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional and Sub-Regional Organisations" on July 24.
Both meetings will be chaired by the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, the release mentioned.
On June 30, Pakistan urged India to resume the normal functioning of the Indus Waters Treaty, which New Delhi has held in abeyance since May, saying the recent decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague showed that the agreement was still 'valid and operational".
India has never recognised the proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration after Pakistan raised objections to certain design elements of the two projects under the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty.
India on Friday strongly rejected the ruling, saying it has never recognised the so-called framework for dispute resolution with Pakistan.
India rejects this so-called 'supplemental award", the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, referring to the ruling in the case related to Pakistan's objections to the Kishenganga and Ratle hydropower projects.
A day after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, India took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan that included putting the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 in 'abeyance".
In a statement, Pakistan's Foreign Office on Monday said the supplemental award announced by the Court of Arbitration on June 27 'vindicates Pakistan's position that the Indus Waters Treaty remains valid and operational, and that India has no right to take unilateral action about it."
'We urge India to immediately resume the normal functioning of the Indus Waters Treaty, and fulfil its treaty obligations, wholly and faithfully," it added.
Separately, Ishaq Dar said the court's ruling confirmed that the IWT remained fully valid.
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