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PAKISTAN:
Amb. Jamsheed Marker said that the decisions at
Cairo should be action-oriented and innovative, reflecting the
evolution of the population debate from the Bucharest and Mexico
Conferences. Population programmes must be fully integrated with
other aspects of socio- economic development. Pakistan believes
that a short list of principles drafted on the basis of existing
consensus language would provide an appropriate framework for the
Plan of Action. The principles should include recognition of the
sovereign right of each country to establish its own population
policies and programmes. The final document should include a
chapter on the protection of vulnerable groups, particularly
women and children, in times of disaster, civil unrest and war.
In addition, the "development obstacles" that affect a country's
ability to achieve balanced growth should be stressed.