ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ambassador to UN Maleeha Lodhi has said that Pakistan has played an active and constructive role in addressing vital global issues of peace and security as well as development and climate change.
Speaking at a Pakistani students’ forum at the Harvard University, Lodhi said that Pakistan’s leading contribution to the UN peacekeeping missions was universally acknowledged. “Our troops have served in 41 missions in 23 countries,’ she added.
She said that a military solution to the conflict within Afghanistan had proved elusive and there was now a firm international consensus that a political solution was the only viable way to bring peace to Afghanistan.
She said that Islamabad played a key role in the decision reached by Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States to create a Quadrilateral Coordination Group to give an impetus to Afghanistan’s peace efforts.
