Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has called for collective global efforts to strengthen democratic values.
He expressed these views while addressing General Assembly of the 143rd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference being held in Madrid Spain, said a message received here.
The Speaker said that the Conference is very important for us as it resonates with the many of the contemporary challenges, including those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaker Asad Qaiser said that quick scan of the global landscape reveals three clear signs of democratic progress, adding that today’s globalized world has increasingly embraced democratic values and principles.
All States, irrespective of their size and power, enjoy the right of sovereign equality in the global governance system.
Dialogue, consensus-building and cooperation are essential ingredients of our multilateral work and responses to an array of global challenges.
He said that promoting welfare and protecting rights of human beings remain the raison d’être of political dispensations. Today, governments ‘of the people’ exist ‘for the people’ and ‘by the people’.
He said that in today’s digital era, citizens have become immensely empowered. New and emerging technologies have unlocked access to a wealth of information, promoted transparency, and opened new avenues of civic participation.
He said that this widening gap between principles and practices resonates with the plight of the brave Kashmiri people.
Since 05th August 2019, India, the occupying Power, has imposed, through use of brute force, a range of illegal and unilateral measures upon Kashmiris.
