Imran Khan Appeals for Debt Relief for Developing Countries to Combat COVID-19

Описание: ▶️Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called Sunday, April 12, for debt relief for developing countries to combat the coronavirus. In an appeal to world leaders and global financial institutions, Khan says in a recorded message that the biggest fear is "people dying of hunger" due to lockdowns.
👉 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan appealed to the international community Sunday to provide developing countries with an urgent debt relief to help tackle the COVID-19 crisis facing them.  
Khan made his “global initiative on debt relief” appeal on a day when a Wold Bank report warned countries in South Asia, including Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, are on course to experience their worst economic performance in 40 years in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. 
In his nationally televised speech, Prime Minister Khan said the developed world is focused on containing the deadly pandemic through lockdowns and dealing with its economic impacts at the same time. 
But he lamented struggling economies like that of Pakistan have been hit hard by restrictions on movement that have halted economic activity, caused widespread unemployment and triggered new challenges.
While stopping the virus from killing people, the “biggest worry” for the developing world now is that people are dying of hunger as a result of the lockdown , Khan lamented.

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