Pakistan has asserted that Israeli measures severely impede the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.

The remarks were passed by caretaker Law Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam at the World Court, where a hearing is underway on the impacts of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Presenting Pakistan’s stance, he said: “The Palestinian people have as the court has recognised the right to self-determination […] this right which as codified in the two UN rights conventions is one of the essential principles of contemporary international law.”

“Pakistan strongly believes in the inherent right of people to live freely and in the justice of struggle of freedom from alien subjugation,” Aslam said.

He further stated that Pakistan believed that the two-state solution must be the basis for peace.