United nation: In order to bring about peace and security in the Middle East, Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to adequately handle the persistent Palestinian issue “as the first and most urgent priority.”
The main cause of instability, tension, and war in the entire Middle East, according to Ambassador Munir Akram, was the festering wound of Israeli occupation and atrocities in occupied Palestine, he told the Council’s 15 members on Tuesday.
The Pakistani envoy stated during the 15-member Council’s discussion of the Middle East situation that the Council had failed to reiterate the UN Charter and international law’s principles in the occupied Palestinian territory, condemn Israel’s violations of human rights, international law, and the Council’s own resolutions, and relaunch the effort to advance the two-state solution.
According to Ambassador Akram, maintaining Israeli occupation will not lead to peace in the Holy Land. He added that if history is any indication, Palestinians will continue to fight for their freedom and basic rights, including the right to self-determination, even if Israel displaces and deprives them of those rights.
The Pakistani envoy continued, “The only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the establishment of a two-State solution, involving the creation of a sovereign, contiguous, and viable Palestinian State, coexisting with Israel within recognised and accepted pre-1967 boundaries, with Al Quds al Sharif as its capital.”
Beginning his remarks, Ambassador Akram stated that Pakistan was gravely concerned about the state of affairs in the occupied city of Jerusalem and that Pakistan denounced the ongoing killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of Palestinian homes, and the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
He gave a briefing to the Council on the “Islamabad Declaration,” which was adopted by the OIC Foreign Ministers meeting in March of last year and included, among other things:
