UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan, on behalf of Islamic countries, has called for the convening of an International Peace Conference on Palestine to implement UN resolutions on the restoration of the Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination within the framework of a two-state solution.
“The international community should accept its responsibility to immediately stop the Israeli aggression in Gaza,” Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN General Assembly session, which followed the US veto of a February 20 Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza. Passport.
The Pakistani envoy deeply regretted the veto and expressed dismay at the failure of the global community to end Israel’s aggression against Gaza, which has killed 29,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Ambassador Akram addressed the 193-member assembly as Acting Chairman of the OIC Group at the United Nations.
“Since the luncheon of aggression in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine for almost the past five months, the entire world has continued to watch, with growing despair and anger, the monumental and endless suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Ambassador. said Akram.
“This situation has resulted in the colossal loss of life and wanton destruction of homes, schools, hospitals and religious places in Gaza due to the continuous attacks of the Israeli occupying power on the territory. “
At the same time, Ambassador Akram warned of the looming risk of widespread famine in Gaza due to insufficient supplies of food and basic services as he reiterated his call for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
“Despite the aforementioned efforts by various actors within the United Nations as well as members of the international community, there are ominous signs of even greater dangers ahead,” he noted, referring to a UNRWA report on the impact of recent Israeli calls to remove the agency and for donors to freeze their funding to it.
In this regard, he said that there is an imminent threat of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip due to the insufficient supply of food and essential services for the excessive number of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Ambassador Akram urged the current session of the Assembly to express the dominant views of its member states and world public opinion in general on the need for decisive action to stop the bloodshed and carnage to which Gaza is subjected.
“The world should support the Palestinian people to achieve their right to self-determination and establish their sovereign and independent state in their territory, occupied since 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with relevant UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative,” he said . APP
