*Karachi – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has announced a tokencontribution of 25,000 dollars to the United Nations Secretary General’sPeace-building Fund, Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday.*

Speaking in a virtual High Level Replenishment Conference for UN SecretaryGeneral’s Peace-building Fund, Qureshi said the United Nations shouldaddress the root causes of conflicts including injustice, inequality andthe suppression of the right of self-determination of peoples under foreignoccupation, in order to build and sustain global peace.

The foreign minister underscored Pakistan’s longstanding commitment to UN’sendeavors for peacekeeping and peacebuilding, recalling that over the last60 years Pakistani troops and police had represented the UN in 46peacekeeping missions across four continents of the world.

“National ownership must remain the core principle of peacebuilding andshould determine all investment decisions of the PBF,” he stated.

The FM highlighted that a major obstacle for the developing countries inmobilizing international investment is their inability to preparecommercially viable development projects. “To address this issue, theresources of the PBF must be utilized to support these countries inbringing development projects to a bankable feasibility status,” he said.