Pakistan has called for implementing the Political Declaration, adopted by last September’s Sustainable Development Goals Summit, under which world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate poverty and hunger, combat inequalities, and build inclusive and peaceful societies that leave no one behind.
“These pledges and commitments on development should be endorsed by the Security Council so as to transform these into binding obligations,’ Ambassador Munir Akram said at the U.N. on Monday.
In particular, the Pakistani envoy emphasized that those promises must be implemented to expand concessional and grant development finance, re-channel the unused special drawing rights, provide urgent debt relief, and meet climate commitments, among others.
Speaking in a Security Council’s debate on the promotion of sustainable peace through common development, he voiced support for the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission’s efforts to address the resolution of conflict situations through the promotion of development.
“Yet, no amount of development can bring peace when peoples are suppressed by foreign occupation and forcibly denied of their right to self-determination as is happening in Palestine today and in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” Ambassador Akram added.
