FM Bilawal calls for monitoring crimes against women

NEW YORK: Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has underscored the need for establishing a monitoring mechanism for crimes committed against women and girls in territories under foreign occupation, including India Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He stated this during a high-level debate in the UN Security Council in New York.

The foreign minister said the most egregious atrocities and crimes against women and girls occur in situations of foreign occupation and suppression of the right to self-determination to peoples.

FM Bilawal Bhutto added that the women, peace and security strategy would remain incomplete so long as the acute dimension of the plight of women under foreign occupation was not addressed frontally and vigorously.

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