Pakistan associates itself with the statement delivered by Uruguay on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and wishes to add the following in its national capacity.
2. We thank all briefers for their presentations today.
3. On Work Package 4, Pakistan has taken note of the preliminary findings. We stress that any decision on structural consolidation of this nature must be fully Member State-led, based on clear and objective analysis of costs, benefits and risks, and preceded by genuine consultations with the broader membership — including programme countries.
4. On Work Packages 15 and 16, Pakistan welcomes the concrete progress on ICT consolidation and the development of a UN System Data Commons. On technology, we expect that savings generated through ICT consolidation be transparently reported to Member States, with clarity on how efficiencies are tracked and reinvested.
On data, we welcome the Data Commons as a tool for national planning and SDG tracking, and look forward to updates on progress toward the September 2026 launch. We stress, however, that aggregating data across UN system entities must not come at the expense of statistical integrity and methodological rigor.
As the UN positions this data for use by AI-enabled tools, robust quality assurance is essential. Clarity on governance arrangements over aggregated data, including on questions of ownership and oversight, is also required.
5. We look forward to hearing updates on the other work packages in the forthcoming UN80 meetings.
