NEW DELHI, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistan would support Japan's bid for a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council provided Tokyo dissociates itself from the G-4 group that includes India.
"If the G-4 composition changes, we will review our position," Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said. He said Pakistan's relations with Japan are historic. "Japan is our largest creditor, the single largest contributor to our debt," Aziz said, the Hindu newspaper reported Friday.
"If that framework changes, we will step back and see what to do," he said. Aziz said it was hypothetical question that G-4 composition remained as it was. He said Pakistan has a principled stand on U.N. reforms and it favored reforms to be broad-based, equitable and democratic that did not create new classes of members.
Despite engaged in a peace process with India, Pakistan has been opposing India's bid for a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council. Two South Asian rivals had so far fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir, a center of dispute between the two for the last over five decades.
The Pakistani Prime Minister said U.N. reforms must be viewed holistically as the U.N. was a body, which needed reforms and reinvention but reforms should not relate to the Security Council alone but the entire U.N. family.
