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Pakistan
A combined view of Pakistan's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Pakistan's UN General Assembly rhetoric has grown increasingly grievance-focused and emotionally charged over the 2006–2025 period, with rising emotional intensity (especially peaks in 2008, 2012, 2021–2022, and 2025) and a declining commitment to multilateral framing in recent years. Early speeches (2006–2011) struck a balance between multilateral appeals and self-referential claims about counterterrorism and democratic reform, but from 2017 onward the country has emphasized pointed accusations—particularly against India over Kashmir and later also condemning Israeli and Indian policies—often backed by casualty figures and economic data. Despite this shift toward more forceful, demand-oriented rhetoric, concrete policy specificity has become somewhat less consistent, and self-accountability scores have trended downward since 2012, suggesting a rhetorical pivot toward external grievance and away from domestic commitment.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2007 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | Medium | Very High | Low | Medium |
| 2009 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2011 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2012 | Medium | Very High | Medium | High |
| 2014 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2017 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2020 | High | Very High | High | Medium |
| 2021 | Medium | Very High | High | Low |
| 2022 | Medium | Very High | High | High |
| 2023 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2024 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2025 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Low |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Pakistan has demonstrated strong and selective commitment to environmental and human rights treaties, ratifying all ten environmental conventions tracked (including the Paris Agreement and Montreal Protocol) and all five human rights instruments in the dataset. However, the country has taken no action on any of the four arms control treaties tracked, including the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, reflecting its nuclear posture and non-alignment with disarmament frameworks. Pakistan has also declined to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, while ratifying the two trade governance and anti-corruption conventions, indicating a selective approach to international legal accountability.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyNo action
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyNo action
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionNo action
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsNo action
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtNo action
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Pakistan maintains a broadly cooperative voting pattern, supporting the majority position in 4,916 of 5,666 General Assembly votes (87 percent). Its notable dissents cluster exclusively around fissile material treaty votes (2010, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021), where Pakistan voted no against near-unanimous support (99 percent yes), consistent with its nuclear weapons program and long-standing reluctance to accept international constraints on nuclear material production.
Notable dissents from consensus
Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2018-12-05 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2021-12-06 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2015-12-07 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010-12-08 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2012-12-03 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.544 (Low), ranked #168 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023