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Express Tribune
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Islamabad slams Delhi for weaponising water
At a preparatory meeting for the key 2026 UN Water Conference, Pakistan has denounced India's attempts to "weaponise water" by suspending the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and thereby endangering the lives of over 225 million people. "Water should serve as a unifying force, not a source of division," Ambassador Usman Jadoon, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the meeting. "Despite recent attempts by one country in our region to weaponise water, Pakistan remains resolute in its commitment to ensuring that the 2026 Water Conference accelerates the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6).
Al Etihad
03-06-2025
- Business
- Al Etihad
UAE, Switzerland hold sixth round of political consultations
3 June 2025 16:56 ABU DHABI (WAM)The UAE and the Swiss Confederation held the sixth round of political consultations in Abu session was co-chaired by Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE Assistant Minister for Political Affairs, and Monika Schmutz Kirgöz, Assistant State Secretary for Middle East and North consultations were a substantive and productive opportunity to highlight the continuous development and strength of the UAE-Switzerland bilateral sides shared current achievements and reaffirmed their commitment to further deepening ties across a range of sectors including enterprise, science and technology, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, water, healthcare, and people-to-people particular focus were ways of accelerating trade and investment promotion. In this regard, the two sides welcomed the remarkable growth in non-oil bilateral trade, which increased by more than 40% in UAE and Switzerland also discussed how to unlock the promise and commercial potential of artificial intelligence, while ensuring the ethical, secure, and responsible development of this countries highlighted their support for international institutions, including the UN, in providing mediation, humanitarian assistance, development support, and peacekeeping, among others. They emphasised the importance of upholding international humanitarian law and discussed their efforts to this sides also discussed their cooperation to ensure the 2026 Water Conference, co-hosted by the UAE and Senegal, delivers tangible both sides held an in-depth review of regional and international developments, including the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in Europe, with a focus on promoting dialogue, de-escalation and diplomatic also reviewed the damaging impact that extremism and hate speech have on communities in all parts of the world, including Europe and the Middle East, and they discussed ways of countering those who promote such harmful consultations were attended by Omran Sharaf, UAE Assistant Minister of Advanced Science and Technology, and Dr. Hessa Abdullah Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation. From the Swiss side, Arthur Mattli, Ambassador of Switzerland to the UAE.
