——- Ambassador Hashmi addresses World Peace Forum 2024 in Beijing
BEIJING: In his remarks delivered at the World Peace Forum 2024 in Beijing, Ambassador Khalil Hashmi de-scribed China Pakistan friendship as a consistent source of peace, development and stability in South Asia and beyond. He took note of the special and unique relationship between the two countries, built on the sentiments of mutual respect, equality and good-neighborliness, to call for cooperative, har-monious and mutually beneficial relationships among the South Asian nations as well.
Underscoring the extricable link between sustainable development and peace, the Ambassador com-mended China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI), Global Development Initiative (GDI) and Global Civiliza-tion Initiative (GCI) for providing a comprehensive framework to promote dialogue and cooperation among nations, including those in South Asia.
Ambassador Hashmi thanked China for supporting the development journey of Pakistan through criti-cal investments under CPEC, made at a time when Pakistan needed them the most. Appreciating the ongoing efforts to build a China Pakistan Community of Shared Future, he called CPEC a modern day manifestation of the ancient Silk Road that connected China and South Asia, facilitating people to peo-ple and trade linkages.
The Ambassador also appreciated China’s consistent and principled position on Jammu and Kashmir marked by its emphasis on the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions for a just and lasting set-tlement of the dispute. He called for instilling new life in the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) with a forward looking approach driven by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. –PR
