United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for promoting peace during a meeting with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, officials said on Thursday.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the fifth UN Chiefs of Police Summit, known as UNCOPS 2026, which brought together ministers, police chiefs and senior law-enforcement officials to discuss international peace, security and policing cooperation.
According to the state broadcaster, Mr Guterres and Mr Naqvi exchanged views on the regional situation and wider international developments, including Pakistan’s mediation efforts between the United States and Iran and its longstanding role in promoting peace.
The meeting came as Islamabad has sought to underline its multilateral credentials at the UN, where Pakistan has been among the countries contributing military and police personnel to peacekeeping missions over several decades.
The summit also provided Pakistan an opportunity to raise security concerns linked to cross-border militancy, cybercrime and organised criminal networks. Before meeting the UN chief, Naqvi also held talks with Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev on regional security and cooperation in counterterrorism, counter-narcotics, cybercrime and law-enforcement training, the interior ministry said.
The two sides also discussed joint police exercises and coordinated approaches against terrorist networks operating in the region, particularly Afghanistan. Naqvi conveyed to his Russian counterpart how more than 25 terrorist organisations remained active in Afghanistan.
In his address to the summit, Naqvi called for greater international cooperation to tackle transnational security threats, saying that “the world faces common security challenges” that “do not stop at national borders.”
“Terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and money laundering…affect all of us. No country is safe from them. And no country can deal with them alone,” he emphasised.
He urged law-enforcement agencies to improve coordination, share information quickly and adapt to technological change, saying criminals were using new tools and therefore:
“We must improve the skills of our police officers. We must strengthen training. And we must make greater use of innovation.”
Concluding his address, the interior minister thanked the UN for this “unique” platform and appealed to the participants: “Let us share ideas that have worked, learn from each other’s success and find new ways to work together.”