New York: While speaking in a ministerial meeting on “global food security” at the United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari revealed that Pakistan faced the existential threat of climate change, the COVID pandemic, and poverty.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is currently in New York, spoke at the meeting on global food security and called for a united action to tackle the challenge of food security posed by Covid, climate change, and conflicts.
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“Recent geopolitical developments have aggravated the already difficult situation of food security,” the foreign minister stated in the meeting.
Highlighting the potential of Pakistan to meet collective food security, the foreign minister said that Pakistan possessed the potential not only to meet its own food security needs but could also play its part “to feed the people of the region and world.” But he regretted that “Pakistan remained unable to unlock its own agricultural and economic potential. ”
While mentioning Pakistan’s active role in carrying out humanitarian assistance, FM Bilawal said that Pakistan was playing a leadership role in advocating for humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. He also said Pakistan had provided humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and Ukraine.
“Hunger has no nationality, poverty does not care for the colour of our skin, and climate catastrophe does not recognize ethnicity,” the FM remarked.
Highlighting the intensity of the climate crisis, he said climate change has an ever-increasing direct threat to food security.
“Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage, and our entire country is currently suffering from drought. He said our agriculture and food security is at risk.”
“The roadmap for global food security called to action is important and impressive, and it will go a long way to address the imminent crisis.,” FM Bilawal remarked.
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