UNITED NATIONS
Pakistan has urged the international community to urgently promote “concerted and coordinated” actions to deal with the multiple crises triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, geopolitical tensions and climate catastrophe that have pushed around 100 million people around the world into extreme poverty.
Poverty imposes massive human suffering, and the root cause of social and economic instability and of most political and security problems across the world, Ambassador Munir Akram told a joint meeting of the General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Social) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the economic arm of the United Nations.
Over the past 30 years, the Pakistani envoy said, poverty had visibly declined, but the pandemic erased the progress.
“Rising inflation and impacts of geopolitical tensions have further derailed the process,” he said in a debate on ‘New perspectives on poverty eradication.”
