Topic: The Obesity Epidemic
Honorable chair and fellow delegates,
Pakistan believes that obesity is really a serious problem nowadays. According to a list of the world's "fattest countries" published on Forbes, Pakistan is ranked 165 (out of 194 countries) in terms of its overweight population, with 22.2% of individuals over the age of 15 crossing the threshold of obesity. This ratio roughly corresponds with other studies, which state one-in-four Pakistani adults as being overweight.
Although now the government hasn’t taken any exact actions to deal with the obesity problems, we are still trying to find a best way that from both diet and law these two ways to prevent and solve the obesity problems.
We do appreciate what some of the states of the United States have done on this issue, which is promulgating laws that seek to bring strict restrictions to the sale and the consumption of low quality foods such as candy, soda and snacks.
We think it is possible that our government enacts laws to prevent the incidence of increasing obesity in Pakistan and we are planning to do so. We do believe that legislations to control the quality of the diet that the Pakistani people eat may really help provided that all stakeholders in every sector of the economy would have exactly the same opinion on this serious issue.
Topic: Pollution and Development
Honorable chair and fellow delegates,
Pakistan believes that pollution does bring many bad effects to not only Pakistan but also the whole world. Since Pakistan is still an underdeveloped country, the pollution issue is even more serious. The disastrous effect on Pakistani and their children’s health is really bad. At the least, pollution causes coughing, sore throat and nasal discharge. At the worst it leads to asthma, tumors, lung damage and death.
The government did do something to improve the polluting situation in our country. For instance, in 2008, EPA closed some of the leather factories in Lahore in order to decrease the amount of pollution. Pakistan government has also set several Sewage treatment plants in some of the big cities to prevent the water pollution become so serious.
While we are working on improving the polluting issues in our countries, other countries do a very good job as well. For instance, one of our allies, China, has already pass the law on Preventing and improving the water pollution, which is what we want to do as well in the next step.
For the future, we would like to keep focusing on preventing and improving the polluting issues. We would like to ask our people to prevent the pollution by themselves, and also ask the factories to decrease the producing of pollution. We would also like to make an official law on these pollution issues, to prevent them and deal with them, but we cannot deal with all of them in a really short time since we are still developing and manufacture does take an important role in our GDP. Still, we will focus on it and take good care on it.
Honorable chair and fellow delegates,
Pakistan believes that obesity is really a serious problem nowadays. According to a list of the world's "fattest countries" published on Forbes, Pakistan is ranked 165 (out of 194 countries) in terms of its overweight population, with 22.2% of individuals over the age of 15 crossing the threshold of obesity. This ratio roughly corresponds with other studies, which state one-in-four Pakistani adults as being overweight.
Although now the government hasn’t taken any exact actions to deal with the obesity problems, we are still trying to find a best way that from both diet and law these two ways to prevent and solve the obesity problems.
We do appreciate what some of the states of the United States have done on this issue, which is promulgating laws that seek to bring strict restrictions to the sale and the consumption of low quality foods such as candy, soda and snacks.
We think it is possible that our government enacts laws to prevent the incidence of increasing obesity in Pakistan and we are planning to do so. We do believe that legislations to control the quality of the diet that the Pakistani people eat may really help provided that all stakeholders in every sector of the economy would have exactly the same opinion on this serious issue.
Topic: Pollution and Development
Honorable chair and fellow delegates,
Pakistan believes that pollution does bring many bad effects to not only Pakistan but also the whole world. Since Pakistan is still an underdeveloped country, the pollution issue is even more serious. The disastrous effect on Pakistani and their children’s health is really bad. At the least, pollution causes coughing, sore throat and nasal discharge. At the worst it leads to asthma, tumors, lung damage and death.
The government did do something to improve the polluting situation in our country. For instance, in 2008, EPA closed some of the leather factories in Lahore in order to decrease the amount of pollution. Pakistan government has also set several Sewage treatment plants in some of the big cities to prevent the water pollution become so serious.
While we are working on improving the polluting issues in our countries, other countries do a very good job as well. For instance, one of our allies, China, has already pass the law on Preventing and improving the water pollution, which is what we want to do as well in the next step.
For the future, we would like to keep focusing on preventing and improving the polluting issues. We would like to ask our people to prevent the pollution by themselves, and also ask the factories to decrease the producing of pollution. We would also like to make an official law on these pollution issues, to prevent them and deal with them, but we cannot deal with all of them in a really short time since we are still developing and manufacture does take an important role in our GDP. Still, we will focus on it and take good care on it.