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Mohammad Aamir Khan

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2021-01-06

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2022-05-19

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1. “But mark my words: nothing will dampen the indomitable spirit of the Kashmiri people to seek their inalienable right to self-determination. Pakistan will continue to expose India’s State terrorism and its oppression against the people of illegally Indian- occupied Jammu and Kashmir. We will continue to call for a just solution to the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant Security Council resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.”

   2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

2. “India’s refusal to do so for over seven decades now constitutes a flagrant and continuing violation of Security Council resolutions, the Charter of the United Nations and international law. The Indian Government’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019 — robbing occupied Jammu and Kashmir of its identity, oppressing its people with 900,000 occupying troops and changing Jammu and Kashmir demography from a Muslim majority to a Hindu majority state — narrowed the space for dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir. India’s allegations regarding terrorism are nothing but a smokescreen to conceal State terrorism against the Kashmiri people. History bears testimony to the fact that colonizers and occupiers often attempt to justify their suppression of legitimate struggles for self-determination and freedom by portraying them as terrorism.”

   2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

3. “My delegation is obliged to take the floor in response to the false and misleading comments made by the representative of India. Jammu and Kashmir is not, and has never been, a part of India, as can be verified by any official United Nations map. Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory. As stipulated in resolution 47 (1948), the final disposition of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is to be decided by the people of Jammu and Kashmir through a fair and impartial plebiscite to be held under the auspices of the United Nations. India accepted the relevant Security Council resolutions, which remain to be implemented. India is obliged, under Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations, to implement those resolutions.”

   2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source

4. “The suffering caused by the coronavirus disease pandemic reminds us that no one is truly safe and secure until everyone is safe. That is the fundamental premise of the concept of collective security, as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Member States must mobilize the necessary political will to transform that concept into a reality.”

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5. “Anti-Muslim prejudice also turned the war on terror overnight into a veritable war on Islam, which was then used as a pretext to invade Muslims countries. As a leading voice of Muslims, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) can play an important role in highlighting the root causes of the conflicts that have beset the Muslim world, and can act as a trusted interlocutor to apprise the international community of the legitimate concerns of the Muslim world, including the resurgence of Islamophobia. The United Nations and the OIC should develop common strategies and plans to find workable, just and sustainable solutions for some of the most complex and protracted challenges that threaten world peace and security.”

   2021-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/24 (2021) · source

6. “The rise of such exclusionary ideologies and extremist groups in some mature and some self- proclaimed democracies threaten peace and stability in several regions of the world. While conflicts affect many parts of the world, some of the most complex and protracted conflicts, unfortunately, afflict the Islamic world. Foreign occupation, intervention and aggression have led to the untold suffering of millions in the Muslim world. Many Muslim peoples, such as the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir and Palestine, continue to fight for their inalienable right to self-determination and the end of foreign occupation. A series of foreign interventions has increased instability and eroded socioeconomic development in the Muslim world.”

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7. “Poor and fragile nations are at the gravest risk. Another ghost from the past also threatens world peace and stability: the rise in intolerance, prejudice, racism and xenophobia. The economic and atavistic anxieties of people in certain nations have led to the resurgence of right-wing populism, violence, discrimination and hatred. Moreover, the misuse of information and communications technologies and State-sponsored misinformation campaigns and subversive propaganda are adding more fuel to the fire of prejudice, hatred and conflict. A clash of cultures and civilizations must not be allowed to become a self- fulfilling prophecy. The rise of fascism in the past has shown us that nations are fragile social constructs and that, even in democracies, people can be manipulated and channelled into the tunnels of hate, bigotry and prejudice.”

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8. “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an excellent framework and blueprint to end exploitation, inequality, poverty and underdevelopment. The SDGs must be promoted by the international community as vital economic, political and strategic goals. Environmental degradation is another driver of fragility for countries that are already impoverished. The environment crisis is the legacy of profligate consumption in the industrial world over the past two centuries. The warming planet, receding biodiversity and the increased frequency and severity of disasters are signs of the world’s degrading ecosystems. They threaten all the essentials of our existence: water, food security, energy, infrastructure, the health of individuals and societies and national and global political and economic stability.”

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9. “It is that legacy that has led to poverty, inequality, exploitation, external interventions, environmental degradation and weak governance, which are the real drivers of conflict in our world today. The foremost of those root causes is rampant inequality both within and among nations. While structural problems within a fragile State contribute directly to that inequality, it is also enabled and incentivized by an international system of vested power and exploitative profit. The dimensions of the exploitation of developing countries are illustrated by the $1 trillion in illicit financial flows from the poor to financial havens, mostly in rich countries. If we are to truly decolonize our world and bring an end to such neoimperialism, we must dismantle those exploitative national and international structures.”

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10. “Let me begin by congratulating Tunisia on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and convening this very important and timely open debate. The mandate of the Security Council is to preserve international peace and security. It also encompasses the prevention of conflict and threats to world peace and security. The Council must therefore address the root causes of conflict in our world today. The received wisdom is that weak governance, political instability and underdevelopment often lead to violence within and among States and societies. Those are the presumed fragile contexts mentioned in the theme of this debate. Unfortunately, that hypothesis overlooks the deeper causes of such fragile contexts: the centuries-old legacy of colonial occupation and exploitation, racism, inequality and the oppression of peoples.”

    2021-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/24 (2021) · source