NEW YORK – Pakistan has urged the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) to maintain neutrality in reporting news coverage of events and ensure that their reports were unbiased.
Pakistan’s delegate Masood Anwar informed the Committee on Information, which overseas work of the UN department. Anwar, who is the press minister at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, said that neutrality in UN reports was very important.
“We urge DPI to ensure that this neutrality is maintained and there is no bias for or against any member state in their reports,” he told delegates. In his remarks, he called for developing a long-term strategy to create awareness about the two landmark decisions taken by the UN – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement – so as to help deliver on the promises that member states had made to improve the quality of life for peoples around the world.
The delegate said that those two UN moves most important as they have a long-term impact on planet earth and on the lives of the people. For its part, he said that Pakistan had developed a comprehensive long-term sustainable development policy framework, Vision 2025, taking into account the universally agreed goals.
“We are strengthening our institutional structures at all levels to achieve the SDGs and accelerate climate action to tackle global warming,” he said. Drawing attention to the important work done by the UN information centres, he expressed support for the activities undertaken by the country office in Pakistan.
Referring to Pakistan’s historic role as a major troop contributor to UN Peacekeeping Operations, Anwar said that the DPI needed to do more to project the UN’s role and contribution to the maintenance of peace and security through peacekeeping, and not allow actions of a few to dominate the narrative.
Noting that conflict and strife mar the global horizon today, the Pakistani delegate said that the international community had to maintain unity in fighting the hydra-headed monster of terrorism and extremism. “Countering the narrative of these twisted ideologies is imperative,” he said. He pointed out that Pakistan was redoubling its own efforts in this direction.
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