Self-determination right: UNGA adopts Pakistan draft

A committee of the UN General Assembly has adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution reaffirming that the universal realisation of the right to self-determination is a fundamental condition for the effective guarantee of human rights. The resolution co-sponsored by a record seventy-five countries‚ was adopted with consensus.
The resolution serves to focus the world's attention to the struggle by peoples for their inalienable right to self-determination‚ including those in Kashmir and Palestine. The resolution also declares the 193-member General Assembly's firm opposition to foreign military intervention‚ aggression and occupation. Introducing the draft‚ Pakistani delegate Marghoob Saleem Butt highlighted the importance of right of self-determination that enjoyed primacy in international law and was the cornerstone of the UN Charter and two international covenants.