Tariq Fatemi Meets UNGA President, Highlights Kashmir & Palestine Issues
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister/Minister of State, Syed Tariq Fatemi, met with the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Philemon Yang, in New York today.
SAPM highlighted that the Pact for the Future adopted last year would contribute towards restoring international cooperation on several key domains. In this regard, he underlined Pakistan’s commitment to work with other developing countries on critical issues of development, finance debt and reform of the international financial architecture.
He briefed the President of the General Assembly about Pakistan’s priorities as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. In addition, SAPM underscored that Pakistan supported a more democratic, representative, accountable, and transparent Security Council, achieved through a consensual and broad-based process that enjoyed the widest possible support of UN Member States.
In this regard, he highlighted that Pakistan believes that the Uniting for Consensus (UfC) group’s proposal for creating more non-permanent members, with equitable geographical representation, elected to ensure accountability, is the best option.
SAPM also briefed the President of the UN General Assembly about the Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and the denial of self-determination to the Kashmiri people.
SAPM informed the President of the General Assembly that the entire Pakistani nation was outraged at Israel’s use of indiscriminate and disproportionate force against innocent Palestinians and reiterated Pakistan’s calls for the implementation of all phases of the ceasefire agreement. He said that durable peace in the Middle East could only be possible with the establishment of an independent Palestinian State.
The President of the General Assembly thanked the SAPM for Pakistan’s support towards the work of the General Assembly.
