{"id":41499,"date":"2013-08-13T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=41499"},"modified":"2013-08-13T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:23:48","slug":"civilian-casualties-must-be-avoided-during-use-of-drones-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/civilian-casualties-must-be-avoided-during-use-of-drones-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian casualties must be avoided during use of drones: UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41500\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41500\" alt=\"File Picture of drone flying in air.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Drones-Pakistan-UN-Nationalturk-13.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Picture of drone flying in air.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said drones should be used only for collection of information in accordance with international laws.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Aug 13\/Nationalturk- In a good news for Pakistan which has been opposing US drone strikes in its tribal region, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said drones should be used only for collection of information in accordance with international laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery effort should be made to avoid civilian casualties in the use of armed drones,\u201d Moon said while addressing inauguration ceremony of International Centre for Peace and Stability at National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad here today.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has often and consistently maintained that use of armed drones like any other weapon should be subject to long-standing international law, including international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very clear position of the United Nations. Every effort should be made to avoid mistakes and civilian casualties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>United States has been conducting regular drone strikes in Pakistan\u2019s tribal region, which Pakistan views as violation of its sovereignty and integrity. Washington views the strikes as an important tool in the fight against Al Qaeda and Taliban militants and insists the drone strikes are legal.<\/p>\n<p>UN chief arrived in Islamabad on a two-day visit. He will meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for talks<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Pakistan immensely contributing in UN peace missions\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s official news agency, APP reported that Moon while referring to UN peacekeeping mission said history of UN\u2019s peacekeeping efforts would be incomplete without mentioning Pakistan\u2019s immense contribution for peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan\u2019s engagement with UN has been crucial in carrying out wider peacekeeping across the globe,\u201d he said and lauded services of over 8000 Pakistani soldiers, \u00a0who are deployed as UN peacekeepers in Liberia, Western Sahara, Ivory Coast and many other countries.<\/p>\n<p>He said the sacrifices of 136 Pakistani peacekeepers could not be ignored, who lost their lives during the country\u2019s 50-year affiliation with the UN peacekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>Moon said an incident in one part of the world could affect the rest of the globe and termed the training of troops as a strategic investment in peacekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military and political efforts and the use of technology was helping the UN troops in coping with difficult situations better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN chief stressed that security and development should go hand in hand. \u201cBesides peace, the people across the world needed food, education, energy, employment, human rights and human dignity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sustainability of peace was more important,\u201d he said adding there was a need to overcome the short-term problems of security by strengthening the long-term foundations of peace-building.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said drones should be used only for collection of information in accordance with international laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[2815,42451,56956,13980,9515,52936,56954,44117,56957,56960,56955,2724,2059,11814,56958,44685,636,31422,23297,56964,1330,51298,56961,11733,8975,1133,6022,56959,56963],"class_list":["post-41499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-al-qaeda","tag-app","tag-armed-drones","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-civilian-casualties","tag-collection-of-information","tag-drone-strikes","tag-international-centre-for-peace-and-stability","tag-international-humanitarian-law","tag-international-laws","tag-islamabad","tag-ivory-coast","tag-liberia","tag-national-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-president","tag-pakistan-prime-minister","tag-pakistani-peacekeepers","tag-taliban-militants","tag-tribal-region","tag-un-peace-missions","tag-un-secretary-general","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-weapon","tag-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}