Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called for further debt relief for stressed countries amid a surge in the coronavirus pandemic around the world and the detection of the new Covid-19 variants, saying “much more needed to be done” to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the 2030 target.
Addressing the fourth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), he observed that developing countries were “trapped between recovering from the pandemic and meeting their debt servicing obligations”.
“The world today is grappling with a series of interlinked and unprecedented public health and economic crises. While the coronavirus does not discriminate between the rich and the poor,…
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