ISLAMABAD
\nDeputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar will visit New York on 18 February to participate in the high-level United Nations Security Council briefing on the situation in Palestine. The meeting will be chaired by United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, in her capacity as President of the Security Council.
\nDuring the briefing, the DPM\/FM will reaffirm Pakistan\u2019s principled and consistent position on Palestine. He will reiterate Pakistan\u2019s strong opposition of Israel\u2019s recent illegal decisions to expand its control over the West Bank, emphasize the need for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, full implementation of Security Council resolution 2803, scaled-up humanitarian assistance, and the early commencement of Gaza\u2019s recovery and reconstruction.
\nThe DPM\/FM will also underscore Pakistan\u2019s continued engagement with international and regional partners, including the Group of Eight Arab and Islamic countries and the United States, in support of a just and lasting peace, anchored in international law, leading to the realization of the Palestinian people\u2019s right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent, sovereign and contiguous Palestinian State based on pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
\nOn the margins of the visit, the DPM\/FM will hold bilateral meetings with counterparts to discuss matters of mutual interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar will visit New York on 18 February to participate in the high-level United Nations Security Council briefing on the situation in Palestine. The meeting will be chaired by United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, in her capacity as President of the Security Council. During the briefing, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93875,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93858\/revisions\/93875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}