Pakistan opposes UNSC expansion


UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan Wednesday rejected what it called a “self-contradictory” argument of some member states that the UN Security Council’s efficiency, including an improvement in its working methods, is only possible by adding more permanent members to the 15-member body. “This defies logic,” Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon told a…

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