10 November 2004	Wednesday	26 Ramazan 1425

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9: Pakistan on Monday said that the UN General Assembly and the Security Council should play their vital role in ensuring the respect for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and 'enforce more seriously the respect for international humanitarian law'.

"Israel must implement UNSC resolutions 242, 338, 1397 and 1515 which set out a roadmap for establishing a durable peace in the region based on land for peace formula," Pakistan's delegate Fauzia Wahab told the Special Political and Decolonization Committee of the UN General Assembly on Agenda Item entitled 'Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and other Arabs of the occupied territories'.

"The Palestinian territories and the Syrian Arab Golan remain under foreign occupation. Arab men, women and children remain in refugee camps and even in those camps under the threat of attacks from land and air. The economic and social conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories remain in tatters mostly because of restrictions imposed by the occupied forces. All this needs to be reversed. Economic and social encirclement should end, attacks should end and the occupied people should be able to exercise their right to self-determination," she said.