Pakistan has stressed the need for clarifying the “rule of law”, saying the much-advocated principle that it applies equally to everyone is being obliterated by the actions of some countries, especially Israel, which is currently engaged in its “genocidal war” against Palestine and the Middle East, APP reports.

“Today, we are witnessing before our eyes the destruction of the ‘rule of law’ at the international level, especially in the genocidal war which Israel has imposed on the people of Palestine and the Middle East,” Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, which deals with legal matters.

“We are witnessing this also in the violations of International Humanitarian Law; in the dismantling of the treaties for arms control and disarmament; in the massive violations of human rights of peoples under foreign occupation; in the violence and discrimination against religions and ethnic minorities; in targeted assassinations in third countries,” he said in a debate on The Rule of law at the National and International levels.

“And, yet, some countries, complicit in this erosion of international law, continue to advocate adherence to this rule of law but only as they interpret and apply it,” Ambassador Akram added.