NEW YORK: The international community should take urgent steps to tackle the grave situations created by Covid, climate change and conflicts around the world.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram emphasized the need at a general debate in the General Assembly’s Second Committee on Economic and Financial affairs.
“We live in an age of enlarging inequality, warning that the world’s unequal economic growth is creating super-rich and super-poor within the exploitative system.”
He asked the international community to redress inequality and poverty that are underpinned by the principles of the UN Charter and more specifically the principle of ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibility.’
The development gains of decades on reducing poverty and hunger have been reversed by Covid, climate and conflict, said the ambassador.
He said over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, 2.4 billion people face food insecurity and 59 countries are in debt distress.
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