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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (APP):As the UN marked its 80th anniversary, Pakistan highlighted the organization’s “tireless” service to multilateralism and progress of humankind, while renewing its pledge to pursue a just global order where peace and human dignity is preserved, and all peoples share the benefits of freedom, security and prosperity.
“Pakistan will work cooperatively with all member states at the UN towards this end,” Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN. said in a message on the occasion of United Nations Day.
“Pakistan’s long-standing record of contributions to UN peacekeeping, humanitarian relief, and global governance testifies to this belief,” he said.
“We continue to stand in principled solidarity with all peoples denied their inalienable right to self-determination, foremost being the peoples of Palestine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, whose struggles embody the unfinished promise of the UN Charter.”
Over the eight decades of its existence, Ambassador Asim Ahmad said while the U.N.’s promise remains far from being wholly fulfilled, the organization has inspired hope, nurtured peace, advanced human rights, and guided socio-economic progress.
Pointing out that the global landscape stands at a perilous inflection point, he said, “Beset by proliferating conflicts and rise of unilateralism, the normative framework of international law is fraying, economies are coming under strain of untenable debt, the climate emergency is becoming a lived reality, and unregulated spread of Artificial Intelligence is creating new uncertainties.”
The developing nations, he said, are bearing a disproportionate brunt of the challenges and crises.
“Environmental degradation and economic fragility, coupled with the widening inequalities, faltering development, and the ascent of ungoverned technologies, demand renewed multilateral consensus grounded in equity and shared responsibility.”