Islamabad (TDI): Reaffirming Pakistan’s commitment to multilateralism at the 79th anniversary of the United Nations, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday said that the world body is failing to enforce its charter in an equitable manner disturbing world order.
The prime minister, in a social media post on X, called the UN Day an occasion to recommit to the principles and objectives of the UN Charter, which provided the basis for a peaceful, and prosperous world.
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He noted that the increasing number of international crises including unconventional crises such as climate change, heightened geo-political tensions, major power rivalry and deepening economic woes of Global South are a strong evidence of world order being in massive disarray.
He said that at the heart of the global crisis was the United Nations’ inability to enforce its Charter in an equitable manner.
He said especially “when the matter involves the question of the right to self-determination for peoples under foreign occupation such as in Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir.”
” As long as the provisions of the UN’s founding document are ignored, the crises will continue to deepen,” he remarked.
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Reaffirming Pakistan’s commitment to multilateralism, the prime minister reiterated that Pakistan would continue to work with the UN to make this world a better place for all where rights of all peoples especially those struggling for their just, legitimate and inalienable rights were realized.
