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UNITED NATIONS: India at the UN has called for the Jammu and Kashmir issue to be permanently removed under the “outdated agenda item” of the “India-Pakistan issue” from the Security Council agenda, saying that “irrational exuberance“There are no winners in a decent world.
In a veiled attack on Pakistan, India said there is a delegation repeatedly trying to change its name to contribute to international peace, but sadly it does not recognize that it is known worldwide for being the source of international terror and the center of terrorist unions.
During an informal virtual plenary meeting on the Security Council’s annual report, Pakistan’s envoy to the UN, Munir Akram, had discussed the Jammu and Kashmir issue and said that the Security Council had also encountered a lack of implementation of its own resolutions and decisions on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
He added that the Council has met three times in the past year to consider the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
India, without naming Pakistan, said in a statement on Monday that “there is a delegation that repeatedly tries to change its name to contribute to international peace, but sadly fails to recognize that it is globally known as the source of international terror and the center for the syndicates of terror.
“This delegation continues to press for discussions on an outdated item on the Council’s agenda, which in any case should be permanently removed from the Council’s agenda. That irrational exuberance has no one to accept it in a dignified world, “said India in the ‘Report of the Security Council for 2019’.
In a summary statement of August 3, 2020 by the Secretary-General on “matters under the control of the Security Council”, “The India-Pakistan question” was included among the points that the Council had not considered in a “formal meeting. “During the period from January 1, 2017 to August 1, 2020.
The agenda item “ India-Pakistan Question ” was first addressed by the Council at a formal meeting on January 6, 1948 and was last considered on November 5, 1965.
Pakistan, backed by its ‘all-weather ally’ China, has repeatedly been seeking to have a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir issue in the Security Council.
The Council had held closed-door consultations on the Jammu and Kashmir issue on August 16 last year after China requested “closed-door consultations” to discuss the matter. That meeting had ended to no avail.
In January this year, China, on behalf of Pakistan, had again attempted to raise the Kashmir issue under “other business” during closed-door consultations in the Security Council Consultation Room. Furthermore, China was left alone in the Pakistani corner for the Security Council to focus on the Kashmir issue.
Last month, when India marked the first anniversary of the end of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and its bifurcation into two union territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Beijing again called for the Jammu and Kashmir issue to be discussed. in the Security Council. under “Other business”.
All of these meetings ended to no avail, as many other members of the Security Council have stressed that Jammu and Kashmir is a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador TS Tirumurti told PTI that contrary to what Pakistan may claim, Islamabad has not been successful in trying to put Jammu and Kashmir on the UN agenda.
“Frankly, Pakistan’s attempt to internationalize, which is a bilateral issue, is nothing new,” he had said.
Tirumurti had pointed out that, contrary to what the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan said Shah Mehmood Qureshi He stated, “There has not been a formal Security Council meeting on the India-Pakistan issue even once in the past 55 years, let alone three times!”
Pakistan, backed by China, has only been able to raise the Jammu and Kashmir issue informally and in closed-door meetings under what is called ‘Any Other Business’, a category where literally any issue can be discussed by anyone. . These meetings have no records and there is no result.
Tirumurti had pointed out that even the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in his statement last August, he clearly referred to the 1972 bilateral Simla Agreement.
“Consequently, Pakistan has not been successful in making forays into the UN in Jammu and Kashmir. That’s the reality, ”Tirumurti had said.
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