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Masood Khan urges intl community to find collective solutions to climate crisis - SUCH TV

Last updated Saturday, October 22, 2022 02:05 ET

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Pakistani Ambassador to United States Masood Khan has urged the international community to find collective solutions to dealing with the challenges of climate change and its dire consequences for the planet.
The floods in Pakistan and the hurricane in Florida has “proved that even if you are a developed country like the United States you have the same challenges when it comes to climate change although you have better, resilient infrastructure.”
In an interview, The Ambassador emphasized that the countries cannot be divided into islands, assuming that one island would remain secure and the other would vulnerable to climate catastrophes.
Discussing immediate and long-term needs of Pakistan at this difficult hour of climate induced calamity, the Ambassador said that Pakistan needs massive support from the international community for rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Masood Khan suggested that debt restructuring would provide Pakistan with much needed fiscal space enabling it to allocate its resources for building climate resilient infrastructure for its people.
On Pak-US relations, Masood Khan said that two countries were pursuing a positive agenda.
Pak-US relations, he said, should not be confined to strategic objectives alone. “We must strengthen our cooperation in the economic, trade, investment, energy and climate sector,” continued Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Stated.
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