Overview
- Pakistan told the UN Fourth Committee on Saturday that recent budget constraints are undermining international security and must not weaken peacekeeping operations.
- The UN General Assembly approved a reported $5.1 billion budget for 2026–27 that member states described as a roughly 10 percent reduction, and missions have cut spending and withdrawn personnel in response.
- Ambassador Syed Haider Shah set out six reform priorities focused on anchoring mandates in political solutions, matching resources to mandates, preserving UN command and logistics systems, preparing for future force needs, protecting peacekeepers, and sustaining collective UN ownership of missions.
- The Pakistani delegation welcomed Security Council Resolution 2823 and the Secretary-General’s accountability measures, including Elizabeth Spehar’s role as Senior Focal Point, and urged prompt steps such as stronger criminal investigations, better case tracking, and support for national courts to hold perpetrators to account.
- Pakistan stressed its long record as a top troop contributor — more than 170,000 personnel deployed over six decades with 183 killed in service — and warned that further capability losses will create gaps in civilian protection and crisis response unless member states restore political will and align resources with mandates.