NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has stressed the need to end the killing and suffering of innocent Palestinians, ensuring an unhindered flow of humanitarian assistance.
Deputy PM Dar made the remarks at the High-Level International Meeting on the Two-State Solution, “The Road Ahead: One Year After the New York Declaration and the Comprehensive 20-point Peace Plan, ” the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
“We are part of the Group of Eight Arab- Islamic countries that supported the Gaza Peace Plan and the Board of Peace, and, as a Security Council member, voted for Resolution 2803,” he said.
He added that diplomacy must respond to the realities on the ground.
“Violations of the ceasefire and the catastrophic human toll in Gaza, alongside the expansion of illegal settlements and settler violence in the West Bank, remain matters of grave concern,” Ishaq Dar noted.
Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar @MIshaqDar50 participated in and delivered Pakistan’s statement at the High-Level International Meeting on the Two-State Solution, “The Road Ahead: One Year After the New York Declaration and the Comprehensive… pic.twitter.com/IRLDOkctuh
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) September 23, 2026
The Deputy Prime Minister went on to say this machinery of occupation is eroding the territorial and political foundations on which a viable Palestinian State must be built.
He added the New York Declaration provides an important political framework for translating international consensus into concrete action.
“Its implementation, together with the Gaza Peace Plan and Resolution 2803, must ensure a permanent ceasefire, safe and sustained humanitarian assistance, immediate recovery and reconstruction, and create the conditions for a credible, irreversible and time-bound political process,” he said.
Pakistan supports an independent Palestinian State
Ishaq Dar also called for advancing an irreversible political process towards an independent, sovereign, and contiguous Palestinian State on the pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
The meeting was convened by President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham of the United Kingdom.
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Remarks by the Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar @MIshaqDar50 at the High-Level International Meeting on the Two-State Solution
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— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) September 23, 2026
The opening statements were also delivered by Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The meeting was attended by President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine (via video).
President of the Government of Spain Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Prime Minister of Egypt Mostafa Madbouly, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister of Jordan Ayman Safadi, Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre, Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin, President of Finland Alexander Stubb, President of the European Council António Costa, High Representative for Gaza of the Board of Peace Nickolay Mladenov, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Rob Jetten, and Foreign Minister of Türkiye Hakan Fidan also attended the meeting.
The Gaza Peace Plan is a US-backed 20-point framework aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza and establishing a transition towards long-term stability in the Palestinian territory.
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It includes provisions for a ceasefire, the release of prisoners, increased humanitarian aid, the phased withdrawal of Israeli forces, Hamas’ disarmament, transitional Palestinian governance and the reconstruction of Gaza.
Israel launched relentless strikes on Gaza after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack.
Since October 2023, the Israeli military campaign has killed more than 73,700 people in Gaza, according to Gaza’s health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.
With so many Palestinians left homeless and major shortages of construction materials, many Gaza residents have taken the risk of moving into shaky buildings.
