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Pakistan’s Ambassador to United Nations, Masood Khan told the UN General Assembly that Islamabad was actively working to promote peace and stability in the South Asian region, and urged the international community to help Afghanistan as it negotiates critical transitions.
Mr. Masood said, in a debate on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report on the work of the organization, that Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif met his Indian counterpart Manmohan Sigh in New York last month and “made serious overtures to resolve all outstanding issues, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir,” according to an official press release here on Thursday He further said that Pakistan supported Afghanistan’s efforts to initiate a peace process and move towards national reconciliation, peace and stability. He urged the UN to upgrade and fortify its strategy for the repatriation of more than 3 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.
On the Middle East, he hoped that the resumed peace process would gain momentum and lead to a lasting peace in the region and a viable Palestinian state, the press release added. The Pakistan Ambassador welcomed the Security Council’s resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons, with the hope that the consensus generated would lead to agreements at the Geneva peace Conference so that Syria can move towards reconciliation and transition acceptable to the people of Syria.
