Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing the 75th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via video link and is set to raise the issue of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on the international forum. PM shed light on the following issues:
✔ Global peace
✔ Repatriation of stolen funds
✔ Islamophobia
✔ Riyaasat-e-Medina
✔ Poverty alleviation
✔ Climate Change
✔ Pak COVID triumph
✔ RSS-Modi fascist orientation
✔ Kashmir human rights, UN Resolutions
✔ Afghanistan peace
✔ Palestinian issue
Speaking about his government’s smart lockdown policy, the prime minister said that Pakistan opened up the agriculture and construction sector.
He credited the government’s Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme and other policies towards steering Pakistan out of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the prime minister cautioned that Pakistan was not yet “out of the woods”.
“We are not yet out of the woods like no country is out of the woods yet,” he said, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The prime minister spoke out against the flow of illicit financing from developing countries to the developed ones. He said that these “stolen resources” that flow from the developing countries to others weaken the foreign exchange and promote the property.
“If this policy continues, it will accentuate the difference between the rich and the poor,” said PM Imran, adding that rich countries lacked the political will to “curb this criminal activity”.
“Eventually, it will spark off a bigger global crisis, a far bigger global crisis than the migration crisis poses,” he said, adding that rich states cannot talk about human rights when they provide protection to money launderers and their ill-gotten wealth.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that there are robust anti-money laundering regimes, adding that he calls upon the UN “to take the lead in efforts to build a global framework, to stem the illicit financial flows and ensure speedy repatriation of stolen wealth”.
“It is important to realize that the aid that flows from the rich to the developing world is minuscule compared to the massive outflows by our corrupt elites,” he said.
PM Imran calls for the world to observe an international day to combat Islamophobia
The premier also touched upon the issue of Islamophobia during his speech, condemning the rising incidences of the burning of the Holy Quran and the publication of blasphemous material against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
“Muslims continue to be targeted with impunity in many countries,” he said. “Our shrines are being destroyed, our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) insulted, the Holy Quran burnt, and all this in the name of freedom of speech.”
PM Imran on climate change
The prime minister said that Pakistan’s contribution to carbon emission was very low when one considered many countries in the world but it was one of the countries most affected by climate change.
The prime minister said that his government has launched an “extremely ambitious” plan to combat climate change by planting 10 billion trees over the next three years.
He called on world leaders to abide by the provisions of the Paris agreement on climate change. “Commitments made through the Paris agreement must be fulfilled, in particular, the commitment to mobilize $100billion annually as climate finance,” he said.
When PM Imran Khan speaks today at #UNGA, it will have a huge audience due to his last speech which won the hearts of all. #ImranKhanVoiceOfKashmir pic.twitter.com/NBDp6N4hNQ
— PTI (@PTIofficial) September 25, 2020
Slimmed-down affair
The general debate of the 193-member assembly, which is traditionally a high-profile annual UN event, opened on September 22. However, this year it is a slimmed-down affair, with world leaders staying away from New York because of the coronavirus pandemic.
They will be contributing set-piece speeches via video link.
“I expect that the prime minister will once again raise the cause of the Kashmiri people for self-determination and Azadi [freedom] from Indian oppression,” Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN Munir Akram told APP.
The Prime minister would also talk about Pakistan’s facilitation of and hopes for the peace process in Afghanistan, its successful response to the coronavirus crisis, debt relief for developing countries, and other international issues in his wide-ranging address.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to speak on September 26, a day after PM Imran’s address.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that India was “obliterating the distinct Kashmiri identity” through its illegal measures in the occupied territory, he addressed the 75th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via video link on Thursday.
Speaking about his government’s smart lockdown policy, the prime minister said that Pakistan opened up the agriculture and construction sector.
He credited the government’s Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme and other policies towards steering Pakistan out of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the prime minister cautioned that Pakistan was not yet “out of the woods”.
“We are not yet out of the woods like no country is out of the woods yet,” he said, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The prime minister spoke out against the flow of illicit financing from developing countries to the developed ones. He said that these “stolen resources” that flow from the developing countries to others weaken the foreign exchange and promote the property.
“If this policy continues, it will accentuate the difference between the rich and the poor,” said PM Imran, adding that rich countries lacked the political will to “curb this criminal activity”.
“Eventually, it will spark off a bigger global crisis, a far bigger global crisis than the migration crisis poses,” he said, adding that rich states cannot talk about human rights when they provide protection to money launderers and their ill-gotten wealth.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that there are robust anti-money laundering regimes, adding that he calls upon the UN “to take the lead in efforts to build a global framework, to stem the illicit financial flows and ensure speedy repatriation of stolen wealth”.
“It is important to realize that the aid that flows from the rich to the developing world is minuscule compared to the massive outflows by our corrupt elites,” he said.
At the 74th UNGA session last year, PM Khan had highlighted the suffering of Kashmiris and the Indian move to annex the occupied territory in a speech stretching more than 45 minutes,
He had said that the very first action that India needed to take was to lift the curfew in occupied Kashmir and then release all detained prisoners. “And then the world community must give the Kashmiris the right of self-determination,” he had stressed.