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Kanju

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first: 1991-09-24
most recent: 1992-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“Boutros Boutros-Ghali to guide the membership of the United Nations towards the new era of peace and prosperity which we all wish to see emerge from the debris of the cold war.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“At this critical session of our Assembly, we are very happy to have someone with your wide diplomatic experience and wisdom as its President. I am confident that you will make a vital contribution to the success of our deliberations on the major issues of our time. Your predecessor. Ambassador Shihabi of Saudi Arabia, has established a superb record of achievements, for which I would like to congratulate him warmly. Our Organization is most fortunate to have a new Secretary-General who, with his distinguished academic and diplomatic experience, can comprehend the strong currents of history flowing in these times. He has already manifested his political courage in defence of justice, equity and peace. The Pakistan delegation reposes full confidence in the ability of Mr.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The United Nations will lose its second chance to realize its potential if it continues to be denied the financial resources required to discharge its growing responsibilities. At this Assembly, we should give serious consideration to ways and means of ensuring adequate financing for all the activities of the United Nations. It is the hope of the Pakistan delegation that the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly will adopt an action plan for peace and prosperity. We should endeavour to reach specific decisions to restructure international relations by the fiftieth anniversary session of the General Assembly. This would be an appropriate occasion to launch the world Organization on its journey towards the vision of peace, justice and progress reflected in the Charter of the United Nations.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Our agenda must be rationalized. The decisions of the General Assembly must also gain in credibility and responsibility. Member States should observe and implement all resolutions of the General Assembly, especially those which are adopted by consensus. The Charter envisaged that the United Nations would play a central role in promoting economic and social progress and development. The world Organization now requires even greater support in order to be able to respond to the host of new global issues confronting mankind population, environment, drugs and international migration. The response of the United Nations membership to these issues will shape the political, economic and social structures of the twenty-first century.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan strongly endorses greater resort by Member States to the procedures for mediation, conciliation and arbitration provided in Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter. Pakistan's participation in several United Nations peace-keeping operations reflects our unqualified support for United Nations peace-keeping activities. As a gesture of solidarity with our brothers in Somalia, Pakistan has provided the United Nations operation in Somalia with an infantry battalion along with vehicles and equipment. Pakistan is prepared to designate specific units of its armed forces for rapid deployment in the service of the United Nations. We believe that the General Assembly must also be enabled to play a more effective role in the promotion both of international peace and security and of economic and social progress.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The Council's decisions will possess credibility only if they are perceived to be fair and non-discriminatory, in strict conformity with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. The actions of the Security Council will gain support if its procedures and processes are democratic and transparent. We should resist efforts to create new centres of privilege. We broadly endorse the Secretary-General's recommendations in his report entitled "An Agenda for Peace" regarding the United Nations role in preventive diplomacy, peace-making and peace-keeping. We particularly agree with him that conflict-prone situations should be identified at an early stage and that the United Nations should play an active role for their peaceful settlement.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“This is, indeed, as the Secretary-General has said, a second chance for the international community to build the system of collective security envisaged in the Charter. . The Security Council can act as a credible deterrent to aggression against smaller and weaker States. Where aggression does occur, the Council can be the agent for the rapid restoration of peace and the redress of injustice. While the revival of the Security Council has already been celebrated, we must acknowledge that its determination in responding to aggression has not been uniform. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, for instance, Serbian aggression could have been checked more effectively.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The damage to our public infrastructure, private property, and agriculture is estimated in the billions of dollars. We have fully mobilized our governmental machinery to recover from the effects of this natural calamity. We greatly appreciate the international expressions of sympathy and support. We are grateful for the assistance offered to Pakistan by the world community for relief and rehabilitation in flood-affected areas. Pakistanis are a resilient people and are facing this natural calamity with courage. The final and vital objective of our Action Plan should be to strengthen the role and effectiveness of the United Nations itself in the areas of international security, economic and social development and human rights. Pakistan welcomes the renewed confidence reposed in the United Nations security role by the major Powers.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The present Government of Pakistan has introduced a free-market revolution in the country. We are seeking economic growth by releasing the dynamism of our private sector. These reforms are based on deregulation and privatization. We have offered generous incentives for investment, including foreign investment. We have encouraged export-led growth. The response to these reforms has been most heartening. Private investment has accelerated; our exports have continued to increase despite the global economic slowdown. The Pakistan economy has grown by over 6 per cent annually during the past few years despite the constraints of a drastic structural adjustment programme. Unfortunately, heavy floods have dealt Pakistan a severe blow. Over 2,000 people have perished.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Seventh, an extensive programme of technical assistance and training should be undertaken in the developing countries to enhance their capacity to implement economic and social development projects. Eighth, additional resources and technology should be made available to integrate environmental and socio-economic objectives for sustainable development in accordance with the commitments of the Rio Conference. As the current Chairman of the Group of 77, Pakistan will work to evolve common positions for the developing countries on all the major economic issues, including the follow-up of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the reform and revitalization of the Organization in economic and social fields. We also look forward to constructive cooperation with our developed-country partners.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Second, they must overcome the special interests that are pressing for protectionism, and conclude the Uruguay Round without further delay. Third, the debt burden of the developing countries should be effectively ameliorated. Countries that have scrupulously serviced their debts, imposing a great sacrifice on their peoples, could be offered relief through generous balance-of-payments support. Fourth, the developing countries should be provided preferential access in the regional trade areas in Europe and North America. Fifth, financial resources must be generated to meet the development needs of the poorest countries. Sixth, the developed countries should support mechanisms designed to stabilize commodity prices, including agricultural commodities.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Further deprivation in the third world can endanger international peace and stability. On the other hand, the integration of the developing countries in the world's financial and trading system can contribute immensely to global output, as we have witnessed in East Asia. Indeed, there is a unique opportunity today to create a truly global economy, since the developing countries, as well as the Central and Eastern European States, have adopted the principles of free markets and open trade. Pakistan recommends the following steps to revive world economic growth and improve the plight of the developing countries. First, the major industrialized countries should take the policy actions required in the fiscal and monetary fields to revive global growth and break out of the current recession.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“As the Secretary-General has pointed out in his report on the work of the Organization: "Political progress and economic development are inseparable: both are equally important and must be pursued simultaneously". (A/47/1, para. 64) Growth in the world economy has been imbalanced. The gap between the developed and the developing countries has increased. The incidence of absolute poverty is growing. Recurrent economic recessions have reinforced trade protectionism and frozen the level of development assistance.- This, combined with the crushing burden of the external debt-servicing of the developing countries, has led to the invidious phenomenon of negative resource flows. We cannot allow growing economic disparities in an increasingly interdependent world in which destinies of nations are linked.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Threats to the security of the littoral and hinterland States of the Indian Ocean arise mainly due to large disparities in their military capabilities. The Prime Minister of Pakistan has proposed a conference of the littoral and hinterland States to agree upon measures for strengthening regional peace and security. The maintenance of an equitable balance in the land, air and naval forces of the regional States is an essential prerequisite for achieving this objective. The Assembly should suggest appropriate guidelines to the United Nations Committee on the Indian Ocean to evolve a new framework for peace and security in that strategic region. A fourth and essential objective of the Action Plan for Peace and Progress must be to revive global economic growth and restructure international economic relations on a just and equitable basis.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“With the end of the cold war and the emergence of the independent republics of Central Asia, Pakistan hopes to serve as a link between interlocking structures for economic and commercial cooperation in these adjacent regions of Asia. The admission of the Central Asian States in the Economic Cooperation Organization, grouping Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, will help towards the emergence of the region as a vibrant economic entity. Pakistan enjoys close fraternal relations with the member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council and we hope to promote cooperation and moderation in the Gulf region. Similarly, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation can make a positive contribution to the evolution of a new era in the relations among the regional States.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Regrettably, India remains unresponsive to the proposals aimed at ensuring nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia and bringing about a mutual and balanced reduction of conventional forces. It continues to vote against the proposal for establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia, which has been repeatedly endorsed by the Assembly. India has yet to accept the proposal for talks involving the United States, the Russian Federation and China, as well as India and Pakistan, to ensure nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia. All the other proposed participants have responded positively to the proposal. Pakistan stands at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia, China, West Asia and the Gulf. In the past, this region was the subject of the great game between rival imperialist Powers.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“These goals cannot be attained unless a climate of trust and cooperation prevails in South Asia. In South Asia, as elsewhere, a balance in the military capabilities of the regional States is essential to build and maintain a viable structure of peace and security. Pakistan has made proposals to India for a regional or bilateral agreement to ensure nuclear non-proliferation, the total prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction, and mutual and balanced reduction of the conventional forces of the two countries. Pakistan and India have concluded agreements not to attack each other's nuclear facilities and on prior notification of military exercises and prevention of air violations. Recently, we also signed a declaration on the total prohibition of chemical weapons.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan holds the view that the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has ceased to exist. Serbia and Montenegro, therefore, should not be allowed to take the seat of the former Yugoslavia in the United Nations. The third objective we must promote in an action plan is the establishment of viable structures for regional peace and security as envisaged in Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter. With the end of the cold war, threats to peace and security are most likely to be regional rather than global in origin and dimension. It is, therefore, in the regional context that the barricades against war must be constructed. Pakistan desires good-neighbourly relations with India. We want to devote our energies to the vital task of economic and social development. We want our people to live in dignity.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We call on the Security Council to take action, including the use of force under Article 42 of the Charter, to reverse the Serbian aggression and restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia deserves assistance in accordance with the Charter's provisions on self-defence. The Security Council should lift sanctions to enable Bosnia to receive such assistance. We further urge that an international tribunal be established immediately to prosecute and punish the reported war crimes by Serbian forces, including the genocidal practice of "ethnic cleansing". The world community must also make more determined efforts to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches the suffering people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We urge the international community to make its due contribution to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation of the returning refugees, as well as to the maintenance of the remaining millions of refugees in Pakistan and Iran. For its part, Pakistan is ready to make its contribution to the gigantic task of rebuilding the war-ravaged Afghan economy. Pakistan welcomes the new Members of the United Nations: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Their presence in this Hall is a source of strength for the United Nations. Unfortunately, one of these new Member States is being subjected to brutal aggression. This world body must strongly oppose this aggression.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan's commitment to the Cambodian peace settlement is evidenced by its substantial contribution to the United Nations Transition Authority in Cambodia, to which we have provided a full infantry battalion. The valiant people of Afghanistan have finally regained control over their destiny. On 28 April 1992 an interim Afghan Government assumed power in Kabul. Pakistan congratulates the people of Afghanistan on their triumph and pledges to them its complete support and cooperation in the arduous task of nation-building and reconstruction. We are determined to develop close and cooperative relations with Afghanistan on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect. It is our sincere hope that the process of reconciliation in Afghanistan will be accelerated and that the people of that country will be able to live in peace and harmony.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The South African Government must shoulder its responsibility for salvaging the negotiations by taking immediate steps to stop the bloodshed and bring to book those responsible for the recent massacres. Meanwhile, international pressure against South Africa should be maintained until the positive changes introduced in the last two years become irreversible and the South African people's struggle for justice, equality and majority rule is finally crowned with success. Pakistan fully supports the efforts of the Secretary-General in implementing the peace settlement in Cambodia. We call upon all Cambodian factions to cooperate with the United Nations in creating conditions conducive to the establishment of a national Government in Cambodia.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan shares the hope that the current Middle East peace process will lead to a just and comprehensive settlement in the Middle East based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973). Pakistan also shares the view that the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all Arab and Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and the exercise of the right to self-determination by the Palestinian people are essential to ensure a durable peace in the Middle East. In South Africa, some progress has been made towards eliminating apartheid. However, the recent violence threatens to disrupt the negotiating process.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Attempts by India to portray the 45-year-old just struggle of the Kashmiri people in terms of external interference are aimed at distorting the historical facts and should therefore be rejected outright. I reiterate before the Assembly Pakistan's long-standing proposal to station impartial observers along the line of control to investigate and verify accusations of interference. We made this proposal in all sincerity and are convinced that such a mechanism would help establish the correct position beyond any shadow of doubt. That position is that the uprising in Indian-held Kashmir is entirely indigenous and spontaneous. Indeed, India's persistent rejection of our proposal exposes the hollowness of its allegations. The people of Palestine too have been denied their right to self-determination.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan has proposed to India the commencement of a bilateral dialogue in accordance with the Simla Agreement to reach a final settlement of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of the United Nations resolutions. We hope this dialogue can start without further delay. We call upon the international community to persuade India to desist from its policy of suppression and to enter into a serious dialogue with us with a view to resolving this dispute in accordance with the resolutions of the Security Council and in the spirit of the Simla Agreement. May I also urge the Secretary-General to use his high office to persuade India to desist from the path of violence and suppression against the Kashmiri people and to allow them the exercise of their right to self-determination as envisaged in the Security Council resolutions.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“It is the children of 1947 who are now sacrificing their lives in the struggle for Kashmir's freedom from Indian rule. Since 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri men, women and children have been killed. According to Amnesty International, an estimated 15,000 citizens are in prisons and torture cells in Kashmir. The brutal repression unleashed by a security force, of over 400,000 has failed to break the spirit of the Kashmiri people. Pakistan cannot remain indifferent to their sufferings. We will continue to extend full moral, diplomatic and political support to the struggle of the Kashmiri people for self-determination. Peace and tranquillity cannot return to South Asia unless this outstanding dispute is resolved.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“This has been repeatedly recognized by the United Nations. The process of self-determination remains incomplete. In its resolutions of 1948 and 1949 the Security Council decided that the future of Jammu and Kashmir should be determined in accordance with the wishes of its people, to be expressed in a free and fair plebiscite under United Nations auspices. Pakistan and India both undertook to implement those resolutions. That was the first time that the Council set out the actual process by which the right of self-determination was to be exercised. It is ironic and sad that the first resolutions of the Security Council providing for the exercise of the right of self-determination remain unimplemented. The passage of a generation has not extinguished the desire for self-determination in Kashmir.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We completely share the resolve of the international community to banish forever this hideous instrument of warfare. However, the draft Convention contains some provisions that cause us concern. It remains our hope that these shortcomings will be redressed to ensure universal adherence to this truly landmark document. The second objective of an action plan for peace and progress should be to promote the fullest application of the principle of self-determination. The principle of self-determination is the bedrock of the present system of international relations between sovereign, independent States. Over the past 45 years, the exercise of this right has led to the independence of the majority of the States represented in this Hall. All peoples under colonial or alien domination or foreign occupation are entitled to self-determination.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Global peace and security will remain in jeopardy unless greater attention is paid to regional security concerns. In recognition of this reality, the United Nations has begun to focus on the need to promote disarmament at the regional level. This is evidenced by the adoption at the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the resolution on regional disarmament by an overwhelming majority. This approach also featured prominently in the deliberations of the Disarmament Commission at its last session. This trend needs to be encouraged and strengthened. Pakistan fully subscribes to the objectives of the draft Convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons, which has been transmitted to the General Assembly by the Conference on Disarmament.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pakistan fully agrees that the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction would increase the danger to world peace and security. Non-proliferation measures can gain universal credibility and acceptance if their scope and application are comprehensive and non-discriminatory. This pre-condition applies as much to nuclear non-proliferation as it does to the endeavour to control the spread of medium- and long-range missiles. With the end of the cold war and tangible progress in arms reductions between the two pre-eminent nuclear Powers, the urgency of promoting regional disarmament is greater than ever before. Today threats to peace arise largely from regional discords and divisions. The armaments race is increasingly acquiring a regional dimension.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“With the end of the cold war, there is no reason why such assurances cannot be extended to the non-nuclear-weapon States unconditionally and in a legally binding manner. An essential element in the programme for nuclear disarmament is the acceptance by all States of a permanent ban on nuclear-weapon testing. The absence of a comprehensive nuclear-test ban will, in the long run, compromise the goal of nuclear non-proliferation. We further believe that the conclusion of nuclear-test-ban agreements among regional States in different parts of the world not only would facilitate the conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty but would also act as an important confidence-buildinq measure at regional levels. Disarmament and non-proliferation are two sides of the same coin.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Pending the total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, their proliferation must be arrested. We have welcomed the agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation which will reduce their strategic nuclear arsenals by half, in the present conditions of instability, further reduction of these nuclear warheads is a pressing priority. Pakistan hopes that their number will be drastically cut, leading to their eventual elimination all over the globe. This is no longer a Utopian goal. Until complete nuclear disarmament has been achieved, the nuclear-weapon Powers are under the obligation to assure the non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Such a structure presupposes the revitalization of the United Nations on democratic lines to regulate inter-State conduct in conformity with recognized principles of inter-State behaviour, particularly the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, respect for the sovereign equality and territorial integrity of States, non-interference in internal affairs, non-use of force in international relations and peaceful resolution of international disputes. A comprehensive programme of disarmament at global and regional levels constitutes the second pillar of a stable structure of international security. Significant reductions in weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons, leading ultimately to their total elimination, and in conventional arsenals are essential elements of the disarmament process.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“To build a new and effective framework for peace and progress, the world community must achieve five major objectives. The first objective is the promotion of a structure of global security that ensures the security of both large and small States, of both weak and powerful nations. Historically, threats to international peace and stability have emanated from the drive for power and hegemony sustained by the accumulation of massive military arsenals. An international order based on hegemony will always remain unstable, because it is unjust. The challenge before us is to build a new international structure that would check the hegemonic ambitions of the powerful nations and promote disarmament at global and regional levels. Only through such measures can we create a just and stable order ensuring global and regional peace and security.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We must build a peaceful, stable and progressive international order on the debris of the cold war, an international order where principles of equity and fair play govern the conduct of States, where the weak live without fear of domination by the strong, where prosperity flourishes and where human dignity is safeguarded. Such a new international order can come about only through concrete steps agreed by the vast majority of the international community. The United Nations is the only forum where we can concert our actions to construct new arrangements for global peace and prosperity. The Assembly should take the initiative by adopting an appropriate action plan in this emerging era of international relations. I should like to take this opportunity to outline Pakistan's views and suggestions on the elements of such an action plan.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“This session of the General Assembly is taking place at the dawn of a new era. The international structure constructed since the Second World War on the balance of terror between the super-Powers has broken down. We perceive new opportunities to promote peace and to accelerate progress throughout the world. Yet we face new and unprecedented problems, both regional and global. The international community must squarely face the challenges and seize the opportunities that the momentous developments of the past few years have presented.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The role of the world body in achieving the independence of Namibia, promoting peace in Central America, reversing aggression in the Gulf and settling regional disputes has earned for it the respect and gratitude of the international community. While we rejoice as at these successes, we expect a more forceful contribution from the United Nations in fostering economic growth and development in the third world. This is clearly not a task beyond our reach. If bitter adversaries of yesterday can become willing partners of today, it is not too much to hope that the immense resources of the world will be utilised for mankind's collective well-being. Only thus will we be able to lay the foundations of everlasting peace and universal prosperity.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“A truly universal compact on the environment will have to incorporate the developmental dimension. The commitments involving the transfer of additional resources and Environmentally sound technologies to the developing countries will, therefore, have to be honoured in full. It is the sincere hope of the Pakistan delegation that preoccupation with short term gains will be resisted and that the course which we had set before us at the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly will be pursued earnestly. The current session of the General Assembly is taking place at a crucial moment in the history of the United Nations.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The industrialised countries have not matched with concrete steps the reform measures being taken in the third world. Our efforts at fostering growth and development continue to be stonewalled by the denial of market access, dwindling resource flows, absence of foreign investment and a crushing debt burden. Rapid action aimed at resolving these problems is imperative. A special effort will have to be made to ensure a successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round, which remains deadlocked on a number of key issues. Close partnership is also necessary to counter the escalating threat of environmental degradation. The international community must evolve a comprehensive strategy for addressing this grave problem. The responsibilities and obligations of both the developed and the developing countries were clearly spelt out in resolution 44/228.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Concrete steps have been taken by their Governments to liberalise their economies, roll back State intervention and promote trade and investment. In Pakistan, too, the Government of Prime Minister Muhammad Hawas Sharif has launched a programme of comprehensive economic reforms involving privatization and deregulation with a view to encouraging economic activity in a liberal framework. These reforms, unprecedented in Pakistan's history, are aimed at stimulating and encouraging market forces as the main engine of economic growth. In accordance with its policy of self-reliance, the Government is focusing on the promotion of exports and foreign investment in the country. Regrettably, the International economic environment remains heavily weighted against the developing countries.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Over the same period it reduced its annual aid to the developing world by $4 billion. Worst still, its net resource transfers to these countries, taking account of interest payments, became negative. In 1990 alone the negative transfer of resources from the developing to developed countries amounted to $39 billion. The Declaration (S-18/3) adopted at the eighteenth special session of the General Assembly provided an agreed platform for common action. It encompassed commitments by the developed and developing countries to enhance international economic cooperation and to revitalize growth and development. In the spirit of the Declaration, many third-world countries have taken wide-ranging measures to enhance efficiency in economic management.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The prospects of lasting peace are more real today than at any time during the past many decades. But for many people in the third world this peace is distant and irrelevant. While the incidence of death by bullets may have declined, the number of victims of deprivation continues to rise. Illiteracy, disease, malnourishment, unemployment and destitution are on the increase. We see in painful detail, day after day, the horror of human poverty. This is not real peace. The 1980a have been described as the decade lost to development. If corrective action is not taken, it may well spawn a lost generation by the year 2000. According to some estimates, the industrialized world today consumes S6 trillion more of income annually than at the beginning of the 1980s.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Each country has the sovereign right to determine its own legitimate defence needs. Many small and medium-sized States, lacking indigenous defence production capabilities, are obliged to depend upon international transfers of arms to meet their essential security needs. In some cases, threats to their security emanate from neighbouring States with large indigenous defence production capabilities. Obviously, the denial of the acquisition of arms through international transfers would endanger the security of such small and vulnerable States. This would have a destabilising effect on international peace and security. It is essential, therefore, to ensure that controls on arms transfers do not create or perpetuate dangerous regional imbalances. The world stands on the threshold of an era of great promise and hope.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“He hope that India will also respond positively, particularly to the proposal for five-nation consultations for a nuclear non-proliferation regime in south Asia. Nuclear non-proliferation in south Asia is a vital condition for regional peace, security and progress. The proposals made by our Prime Minister are in keeping with the spirit of the times and reflect our genuine desire that the south Asian countries should concentrate their efforts on economic development through the diversion of resources currently allocated to defence to developmental purposes. The question of arms transfers should be considered within the overall context of conventional arms control, taking into account the indigenous defence production capabilities of different countries as well as their legitimate security concerns.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“In addition to several proposals made to India since 1974 to keep our region free of nuclear weapons, including the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free some, the Prime Minister of Pakistan recently put forward three important proposals for arms control and nuclear non-proliferation in south Asia. These proposals call for: first, consultations by the United States, the Soviet Union and China with India and Pakistan to ensure nuclear non-proliferation in south Asia; secondly, bilateral arrangements or a regional regime for the prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction in south Asia; and, thirdly, a mutual and balanced reduction of forces in south Asia consistent with the principle of equal and undiminished security at the lowest level of armaments. He are encouraged by the positive response to our proposals by many countries.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Naval disarmament has become an equally important objective, because of the rapid augmentation of the naval power of some States. The acquisition of aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines by some regional States is a cause of grave concern to their smaller neighbours. Pakistan has proposed a number of disarmament measures to strengthen peace and stability in south Asia. He believe that a regional approach to non-proliferation, based on the principles of equality and non-discrimination, is the most feasible and effective means of resolving the nuclear issue in south Asia.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“He also stand for the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Global disarmament efforts should be supplemented by disarmament measures at the regional level. A regional approach offers the most realistic prospect for meaningful progress towards disarmament, since threat perceptions and security concerns vary from region to region. This approach is steadily gaining ground, as evidenced by the adoption of a resolution on regional disarmament by an overwhelming majority at the forty-fifth session of the General Assembly. Negotiations for conventional disarmament at the global and regional levels must also be pursued vigorously, especially because of the increase in the sophistication and destructive power of conventional weapons.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“It is our expectation that this process will eventually lead to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. Until then, effective and legally binding international arrangements must be worked out to assure all non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or the threat of use of nuclear weapons. He support the early conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty. Pending the conclusion of such a treaty, nuclear-test-ban agreements could be arrived at among regional States in different parts of the world. Those regional agreements would not only act as important confidence-building measures but would also facilitate the conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty. Pakistan supports the early conclusion of a comprehensive convention on the total prohibition of chemical weapons.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Pakistan is resolved to give further depth and substance to regional cooperation through the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the Economic Cooperation Organization. Pakistan has consistently promoted the cause of international peace and security and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. He are therefore gratified at the conclusion of the strategic arms reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and the Soviet Union. Pakistan particularly welcomes the recent announcement by President Bush of bold and far-reaching measures encompassing, inter alia, the elimination of land- and sea-based tactical nuclear weapons. These measures represent a major advance in the process of nuclear disarmament and call for an appropriate response from all concerned Powers.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“He welcome the fact that Cambodia is represented in the General Assembly by the delegation of the Supreme Rational Council headed by His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Recent developments in South Africa constitute steps in the right direction, but fall short of the complete elimination of apartheid. The international community has an obligation to extend wholehearted support to the struggle of the people of South Africa for self-determination and majority rule. The sanctions imposed against the Pretoria regime should continue to be applied until the complete elimination of apartheid and the establishment of majority rule in South Africa have been achieved. The changed global situation has underscored the importance of regional economic cooperation.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)