UNITED NATIONS: A Pakistansponsored resolution on the right to selfdetermination for people living under foreign occupation was adopted by consensus, without a vote, at the United Nations on Monday afternoon.

Co-sponsored by 72 other countries from all regions of the world, including China, Malaysia, Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and South Africa, the resolution was approved by the 193-member Third Committee that deals with social, humanitarian and cultural affairs.

The resolution which was first tabled by Pakistan in 1981 is adopted by consensus every year since it does not mention Kashmir or Palestine.It reaffirms the inalienable right of people to self-determination as a fundamental human right and an indispensable and effective guarantee for the observance and achievement of other human rights and fundamental freedoms.

It condemns all acts that seek to undermine this right, including through foreign military intervention, aggression and occupation.

Pakistan`s Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, while introducing Pakistan`s draft resolution on `Universal realisation of the right of peoples to self-determination` said the country`s commitment to the universal right of peoples to self-determination `is firm and abiding`.

She said that the exercise of this right had enabled millions across the world to emerge from the yoke of colonial and foreign occupation and alien domination.