Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar he expressed hope that the Board of Peace, under the framework of UN Security Council resolution 2803, would lead to concrete steps toward a permanent ceasefire, scaled-up humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction of Gaza.
He was participating in the high-level United Nations Security Council briefing on Palestine in New York.
The Deputy Prime Minister strongly condemned Israel’s recent decisions to expand control over the West Bank, continued ceasefire violations, illegal settlement activities, and attempts to alter the status of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and called for their immediate halt and reversal.
Ishaq Dar also underscored the realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination through a credible, time-bound political process, in line with international legitimacy and relevant UN resolutions- culminating in an independent, sovereign and contiguous State of Palestine based on pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
