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Daily Times
May 1, 2021
Pakistan has called for international cooperation on tax matters to help fund cross-border public goods and crises-resilient health systems for pandemic recovery and achieving sustainable development.
In his remarks at ECOSOC’s special meeting on international tax cooperation, President of the UN Economic and Social Council and Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram underscored the need for member states to work together to stop the drainage of resources for sustainable development caused by illicit financial flows, as well as corporate and personal tax avoidance and evasion.
Ambassador Akram said that there is an urgency to put an end to the ‘tax havens’ which enable profit-shifting practices by the big multinational corporations. He said a minimum global corporate tax could provide a way forward.
Daily Times
April 29, 2021
UNITED NATIONS: The President of UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram, has stressed the need for addressing inequality at the international and national levels to promote the goal of justice envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of efforts to build international peace and security.
“Justice flows from equality; injustice from inequality, discrimination and lack of fairness in policy and practice,” he said in his online remarks to the SDG-16 Conference 2021 which is being held in Bangkok, the headquarters of the UN Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP).
Ambassador Akram said that the implementation of SDG-16, which calls for “peace, justice and strong institutions,” required work at the international level toward an inclusive and equitable global financial architecture; a fair and inclusive international tax regime; an equitable and development – oriented trade regime, and an end
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At UN, Pakistan again rejects India s claim regarding J&K
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At the United Nations, Pakistan has once again rejected India’s false claim that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part.
Speaking in the UN General Assembly, Pakistan’s delegate Jawad Ali said India has no other claim on Jammu and Kashmir than that of an occupier.
He was responding to the Indian delegate Vidisha Maitra s reaction after Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram exposed New Delhi’s human rights abuses in the illegally occupied Kashmir as well as the design of BJP-RSS extremists against Pakistan.
Jawad Ali said like all occupiers and colonizers of the past, India wants to physically, politically and psychologically crush the indigenous Kashmiri struggle for right of self-determination.