United Nations: Pakistan, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term, has voiced "absolute confidence" that India voted in its favour and said it appreciates the gesture.
Islamabad, which was elected on Friday along with Morocco, Guatemala and Togo for a term beginning on January 1, 2012, had voted for India to be included in the 10-nation non-permanent club last year. New Delhi began its two-year tenure in January this year.
"I am very grateful to him (India's permanent representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri) and I would like to appreciate the reciprocation of India to Pakistan. This will help in getting a lot of things moving forward," Pakistan's envoy to the UN Abdullah Hussain Haroon said.
"I have absolute confidence that India voted for us," he later told reporters. The voting is done through secret ballot.
Pakistan, which won 129 votes in the 193 member UN General Assembly, was vying for a seat against Kyrgyzstan in the Asia pacific category. There were no abstention.
Puri, who is currently in India, congratulated Haroon over the phone after the election result was declared. Haroon said Puri and he has a "good working
relationship for quite some time now. You have seen that the usual tendencies have not erupted between us and that is a good factor.
"I would say that perhaps both of us have been beneficial in starting dialogue between the two countries and we have gone far and I believe we will go much further."
He said that Pakistan will be working well with all of the other Council members, "especially India."
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