Overview
- External affairs minister S. Jaishankar said "all is not well" with the UN, describing decision-making as polarized, gridlocked and strained by finances.
- He cited a sitting Security Council member shielding the group behind the Pahalgam attack, with officials and multiple reports saying Pakistan sought to delete references to The Resistance Front from a UNSC press statement.
- The Resistance Front, described as a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy, claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack and was named in a July UNSC report when Pakistan was a non-permanent member and held the presidency.
- Jaishankar warned that equating victims and perpetrators and blocking sanctions on self-proclaimed terrorists erodes the credibility of multilateralism.
- India’s UN envoy Parvathaneni Harish called for time-bound, text-based negotiations to expand both permanent and non-permanent seats, reaffirming support for peacekeeping and flagging the SDG 2030 slowdown as a stress test for the Global South.