BAKU (Azerbaijan): Pakistan on Thursday urged the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the international community to promote a just, peaceful and expeditious resolution of longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute as per the UNSC resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
“Foreign intervention and occupation, and the accompanying denial of the right to self-determination to peoples, are of the root cause of conflicts and disputes and of grave violations of human rights. This is manifest in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK),” Minister for Economic Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said addressing the summit level meeting of the NAM Contact Group in response to COVID-19 on post-pandemic global recovery held here.
The minister, who headed the Pakistani delegation at the summit, said the decisive condition for achieving all our development goals rested on the promotion of just and durable peace and security, nationally, regionally and globally.
“It is impossible to talk about a post-pandemic global recovery against the backdrop of wars, conflicts and foreign occupation,” the minister told the meeting attended by the delegates representing from around 70 countries and chaired by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev as NAM chair.
He said Pakistan deeply valued the NAM’s fundamental ideals, especially its principled support for the right to self-determination of people living under foreign occupation.
He said NAM, which numbered two thirds of UN member states, had a critical role to play in shaping the post pandemic global recovery.
Proposing a comprehensive and cooperative strategy to “build forward better” which, the minister said, should include, ensuring global food security through the urgent provision of food supplies to the 250 million living in hunger.
The strategy should also feature urgent and adequate concessional financing for developing countries facing liquidity challenges, reform of the international financial architecture, through a comprehensive debt solution and implementation of the climate change agenda and climate commitments, especially the fulfillment of the climate finance commitments and the launch of the Loss & Damage fund agreed at COP27. –Agencies
