Pakistan along with other Islamic countries to aggressively support Palestine, FMs to visit New York

Addressing a session of the National Assembly on Palestine, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan along with other Islamic countries demanded a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

He said that the decisions of the Security Council can be vetoed but no one has the power to veto in the General Assembly.

FM Qureshi told that he would leave for Turkey tonight and meet his Turkish, Palestinian, and Sudanese counterparts there.

He said that in today's world it is not so easy to suppress problems, everything comes to light through videos on social media.

"I will represent the voices of 22 million Pakistanis in New York," he said.

Permanent Observer Mission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations will contact the president of UNGA and ask him to summon a session on the issue immediately, he informed.

The foreign minister regretted that despite members of the UN Security Council being convinced against Israeli atrocities, the United States had vetoed and stopped a statement on Israeli-Palestinian violence.

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.

"Even the people in Western countries aren't quiet about it," he said. "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."

FM Qureshi informed the house that the Palestinian leadership had lauded Pakistan's support in the matter.