UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar will join about 150 world leaders in next week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to deliberate about important international peace and security issues as well as Global South’s concerns over growing inflation, poverty, and debt burden.
With the high-level segment of the 193-member Assembly’s 78th session starting 19 September, hundreds of New York Police Department personnel on Sunday began erecting checkpoints and roadblocks around UN Headquarters in Manhattan to turn the area into a high-security zone to protect the participating world leaders.
PM Kakar is scheduled to arrive in New York on Monday as the head of the Pakistan delegation to UNGA. He will address the Assembly on 22 September, the first Pakistani caretaker premier to do so. Caretaker Foreign Jalil Abbas Jilani will also attend the session.
PM’s address at UNGA
In his address, the premier will outline Pakistan’s perspective on a range of regional and general matters of concern, including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. He will also elaborate on the significant steps taken by his caretaker administration to consolidate Pakistan’s economic recovery and efforts to mobilize domestic and external investment.
In addition, the prime minister will hold bilateral meetings with counterparts from different countries as well as with the heads of philanthropic organizations, international organizations, and corporate leaders. He also has a number of media engagements.
US President Joe Biden, as leader of the host nation, will be the second speaker on Tuesday, the opening day of the annual session of world leaders who take the pulse of the planet and tackle global challenge.
The list of speakers indicates the participation of 145 Heads of State and Government, six Vice Presidents, four Deputy Prime Ministers, and thirty-eight Ministers or Chiefs of Delegations — a total of 196.
This year’s theme is “restoring trust and reigniting global solidarity”, but the credibility of the United Nations is currently being undermined by geopolitical conflicts, divisions, and paralysis at the Security Council as humanitarian, economic, and climate-related crises continue.
