Pakistan's draft reaffirming peoples' self-determination right adopted at UN

The Pakistan-sponsored resolution was co-sponsored by a record 75 countries‚ and was adopted with consensus.

UNITED NATIONS: Days after being elected onto the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world body adopted a Pakistan-sponsored draft resolution on reaffirming the universal realisation of right to self-determination as a fundamental condition for effective guarantee of human rights, Radio Pakistan reported.

A committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the Pakistan-sponsored resolution reaffirming that the universal realisation of the right to self-determination is a fundamental condition for the effective guarantee of human rights.

The resolution was co-sponsored by a record 75 countries‚ and was adopted with consensus.

The resolution serves to focus the world's attention to the struggle by peoples for their inalienable right to self-determination‚ including those in Kashmir and Palestine.

The resolution also declares the 193-member General Assembly's firm opposition to foreign military intervention‚ aggression and occupation.

Introducing the draft‚ Pakistani delegate Marghoob Saleem Butt highlighted the importance of right of self-determination that enjoys primacy in international law and is the cornerstone of the UN Charter and two international Covenants.