UITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (APP/DNA):The United Nations must ensure "non-selective" implementation of its resolutions and uphold international law without exception, a senior Pakistani diplomat said Thursday, as he highlighted Kashmir and Palestine where people have been denied their UN-promised right to self-determination. “The realization of self-determination is not merely a historical aspiration; it is an enduring obligation,” Ambassador Usman Jadoon, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the General Assembly marking the International Day Against Colonialism in All its Forms and Manifestations.
Implementation of the 1960 ‘Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples’ and the decolonization agenda , he said, was not confined to Non-Self-Governing Territories alone, It also encompasses peoples living under alien occupation and foreign domination.
“The overarching objective, therefore, remains to ensure that all such peoples are enabled to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination,” Ambassador Jadoon added.
Referring to recent developments in the Middle East, the Pakistani envoy said that lasting peace cannot be achieved through the continued denial and suppression of the legitimate right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.
Similarly, he said, the UN Security Council has, through several resolutions, recognized the legitimate right of self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“A just resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute remains central to the establishment of durable peace in South Asia”.
In conclusion, Ambassador Jadoon called for renewed international resolve to fully and unconditionally eradicate colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.
