Foreign Desk Report
New York: Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers vowed to uphold the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and resist unilateralism through their pre-recorded speeches addressed to the ongoing General Debate of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly.
“It is important for all of us to reaffirm our conviction to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations which is the cornerstone of International law. This remains timeless, universal and an indispensable foundation for a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world,” Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth said.
“It is also important that the institutions that we have collectively created operate independently and their rulings are respected by all countries irrespective of their size and power,” he added. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the COVID-19 pandemic has indeed aggravated existing global challenges and reinforced the indispensability of multilateralism.
“On this 75th anniversary of the United Nations, our commitment to multilateralism as embodied in the UN Charter remains unflinching,” she said. “At the national level, despite numerous challenges, we are committed to upholding the values of multilateralism and working towards building a ‘Sonar Bangla’ free of poverty and exploitation based on democratic principles with full enjoyment of human rights, as envisioned by the Father of our Nation.”
