Pakistan asked UN to play fair role on Kashmir issue
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday stressed that the United Nations must play its fair role in delivery the grave situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and see to it that Kashmiris exercise their right to self-determination, promised to them in the applicable UN Security Council resolutions.
He was talking to President of the United Nation's General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, who called on him here. The prime minister stretched warm congratulations to Bozkir on his election as the president of the historic 75th Session of the UN General Assembly.
During the meeting, he instructed the PGA-elect of the serious situation in the IIOJK, an issue that was on the agenda of the UN Security Council for over seven decades. He highlighted the awful human rights and humanitarian situation in IIOJK since 5 August 2019, as well as the ongoing gross and systematic ravishments of human rights of the Kashmiri people and the attempts to change the demographic structure of the occupied territory.
He instructed the PGA-elect of his government’s initiatives to decrease and suppress the socio-economic impacts of coronavirus pandemic, focused on saving lives, securing livelihoods, and challenging the economy. He informed the visiting VIP that his government deployed an $8 billion stimulus package for the poor and the needy, in the highest social security coverage by any government in the history of Pakistan.
The prime minister further highlighted his call for ‘Global Initiative on Debt Relief’ and stressed the need to provide greater financial space to the developing countries to overcome hurtful socio-economic impacts of coronavirus pandemic. He also highlighted the high importance he attached to addressing climate change, countering Islamophobia, and combating illicit financial flows from developing countries. He expressed the hope that the 75th Session of the UNGA would accord anteriority to these issues, which affected billions around the world.
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