GENEVA: The UN Secretary-General called Monday for “massive investments” to help Pakistan recover from last 2022’s devastating floods in the country, saying it was “doubly victimised” by climate change at one hand and a “morally bankrupt global financial system” on the other.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the international conference in Geneva that no country deserves to endure what happened to Pakistan. He told the participants of the conference that Pakistan is seeking billions of dollars to support recovery from the disaster.
UN chief opens conference
Guterres spoke to the conference as he opened the one-day event, appealing to the world to help Pakistan bounce back from the 2022 floods. it is to mention here that the worst in the country’s history, the floods submerged a third of the country, also killing more than 1,700 people and affecting more than 33 million others.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Foreign Minister of Pakistan who also attended the event along with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, called the floods “a climate disaster of monumental scale”.
According to the reports, eight million people were displaced while millions of acres of agricultural land were ruined and around two million homes were destroyed due to the floods. Around 9 million people were also pushed to the brink of poverty in the floods. — AFP/APP
