At the United Nations, Pakistan has highlighted the urgent need to promote dialogue and diplomacy, discard zero-sum approaches, shun confrontation, and advance mutually beneficial cooperation against the backdrop of an increasingly polarized and fractured international environment.

This was stated by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, while delivering Pakistan's statement at the UN Security Council's Arria Formula meeting, convened by China.

He said the world today stands at a crossroads with wars, inequality, economic instability, and climate catastrophe threatening peace and security. He said we must revive faith in multilateralism and collective action.

The Pakistan UN Ambassador said the United Nations was created to protect, and promote the interests of all nations, big and small, founded as it was on the spirit of cooperation and the common good of humanity and not established to serve the interests of the powerful.

Sharing Pakistan's proposals to strengthen multilateralism, he asked the world to recommit itself to international law and the principles of the UN Charter, stating that these principles are not optional ideals, rather they are the foundation of a just world order.

Ambassador Asim Iftikhar also called for reforms in the international trading system in a way that it best reflects the aspirations and needs of the developing countries.