Pakistan promoting regional linkages to deal with economic challenges: FM
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says Pakistan is adhering to the policies of economic diplomacy and promoting regional linkages to deal with the challenges of economic implications.
Chairing a high-level meeting regarding corona pandemic, economic diplomacy and regional security in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said, in this context, we have converted our geo-political priorities into geo-economic priorities.
He said the corona pandemic has adversely affected the world’s strongest and most powerful economies.
The Foreign Minister said international community will have to play its due role to stop grim human rights violations in IIOJK and establishing lasting peace in the region.
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Insecurity: Most S-West farmers have abandoned farms Ogun Monarch
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The Olu of Orile Kemta in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Adetokunbo Tejuosho, has decried the state of insecurity in the South-West, especially in rural areas.
Tejuosho, who was a career ambassador and a permanent representative of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, in Geneva, Switzerland, disclosed that most farmers in the South-West have abandoned their farms because of the nefarious and criminal activities of some Fulani herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers.
He said: “We cannot overemphasise the importance of information and intelligence gathering in addressing this menace. So, I am calling on the general public to see security as everybody’s business.”
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SDGs remains one of top national priorities for the country, says foreign minister
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April 14, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday underscored that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remained one of the top national priorities of Pakistan, and the government’s post-Covid-19 recovery, response and climate-resilience solutions were in line with the UN Agenda 2030 of Sustainable Development.
He expressed these views while inaugurating Pakistan’s country presentation at the virtual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Investment Fair 2021, organised by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in New York.
The foreign minister, in his video address to a global audience of private sector investors, businesses, members of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance, multilateral and bilateral development actors, governments, UN agencies and other stakeholders, said that Pakistan was an emerging m