ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has asserted that Pakistan, Turkey, Sudan, and Palestine’s foreign ministers would visit New York and raise their voices against Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip at the UN General Assembly.
“I will represent the voices of 22 million Pakistanis in New York,” the foreign minister said while speaking on the floor of the National Assembly today (Monday).
FM Qureshi announced that he would leave for Turkey tonight and meet his Turkish, Palestinian, and Sudanese counterparts there. “The war-like situation in Palestine should come to an end as innocent Palestinians are being martyred every day,” he added.
“Permanent Observer Mission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the United Nations will contact the president of UNGA and ask him to summon a session on the issue immediately,” the minister added.
“Tomorrow, the European Union has called its meeting of foreign ministers to deliberate over the matter of Palestine — given that they have 65 million Muslims residing there, so they won’t let them down,” he stated.
The foreign minister said Pakistan had adopted a clear stance during a session of the OIC yesterday, where it demanded Israel’s crimes against humanity should not escape accountability.
Qureshi said the PTI-led government would never step back from the country’s stance on Palestine and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He also informed the house that the Palestinian leadership had lauded Pakistan’s support in the matter.
