The UN Security Council will convene closed-door consultations on Monday, May 5, 2025, to discuss rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
The meeting was scheduled after Pakistan, currently a non-permanent member of the 15-nation Council, formally requested an emergency session. Greece, which holds the Council presidency for May, confirmed the meeting would take place in the afternoon.
The Security Council comprises five permanent members with veto power — China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. — and ten non-permanent members: Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia.
Following the April 22 deadly attack in Pahalgam and the subsequent rise in tensions between India and Pakistan, the President of the UN Security Council for May, Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris of Greece, addressed the possibility of a Council meeting on the matter.
Speaking last week, Sekeris stated, “then… I think this meeting should take place because, as we said, maybe it’s also an opportunity to have views expressed and this might help to diffuse a bit of tension,” if a formal request were submitted to discuss the situation.
“We are in close contact…but this is something which might happen, I would say, sooner rather than later. We will see, we are preparing,” Sekeris had said to PTI news agency.
