UNGA president’s Kashmir remarks unacceptable: MEA

A day after the United Nations General Assembly president Volkan Bozkir stated Pakistan is “duty-bound” to boost the Kashmir situation within the UN extra strongly, India responded sharply by calling the assertion “unacceptable”. It stated his “behaviour is truly regrettable and surely diminishes his standing on the global platform”.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated, “We express our strong opposition to the unwarranted references made with respect to the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir by the President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA) Volkan Bozkir during his recent visit to Pakistan.”
“His remarks that Pakistan is “duty bound” to boost this situation within the UN extra strongly are unacceptable. Nor certainly is there any foundation for comparability to different international conditions,” he stated.
“When an incumbent President of the UN General Assembly makes misleading and prejudiced remarks, he does great disservice to the office he occupies,” the MEA spokesperson stated.
Volkan Bozkır is a Turkish diplomat and politician at present serving because the President of the United Nations General Assembly since 2020. He has earlier served as Turkey’s Minister of European Union Affairs and was elected because the president of UNGA on 17 June ‘2020 for the seventy fifth session, changing into the first-ever Turkish diplomat to carry this place. His time period is for one 12 months.

On Thursday, Bozkir had inspired Pakistan to take up the difficulty of Jammu and Kashmir extra robustly on the United Nations.

Speaking at a joint press convention with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Thursday, he had stated, “I think it is the duty, especially Pakistan’s to bring this (Kashmir issue) to the United Nation platform more strongly.”
Bozkir had additionally emphasised that every one events ought to chorus from altering the standing of Jammu and Kashmir, and stated an answer was to be discovered via peaceable means in accordance with the UN Charter and UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions as agreed within the Simla Agreement between Pakistan and India.