UNITED NATIONS
\nPakistan has urged the international community to urgently promote \u201cconcerted and coordinated\u201d 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.
\nPoverty 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\u2019s Second Committee (Economic and Social) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the economic arm of the United Nations.
\nOver the past 30 years, the Pakistani envoy said, poverty had visibly declined, but the pandemic erased the progress.
\n\u201cRising inflation and impacts of geopolitical tensions have further derailed the process,\u201d he said in a debate on \u2018New perspectives on poverty eradication.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS Pakistan has urged the international community to urgently promote \u201cconcerted and coordinated\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n