ISLAMABAD: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.

 

Addressing the summit level meeting of the NAM Contact Group in response to COVID-19 on post-pandemic global recovery in Baku, Minister for Economic Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said this is manifest in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) that the 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.

 

The minister told the meeting that it is impossible to talk about a post-pandemic global recovery against the backdrop of wars, conflicts and foreign occupation. Proposing a comprehensive and cooperative strategy, the minister said it should include ensuring global food security through the urgent provision of food supplies to the 250 million living in hunger.

 

He said the strategy should also feature urgent and adequate concessional financing for developing countries facing liquidity challenges. He also suggested the mobilization of large-scale investment from the public and private sector to build sustainable and resilient infrastructure, in developing countries. He told the summit that as a direct consequence of the devastating floods last summer an estimated 9 million more people in Pakistan could descend into poverty.