India slams UN General Assembly president for misleading and prejudiced remarks on Kashmir
By Anish Kumar | First Published May 29, 2021, 7:36 AM ISTIndia said UNGA President Volkan Bozkir's remarks that Pakistan is 'duty bound' to raise this issue in the United Nations more strongly are unacceptable.
India has strongly reacted against the United Nation General Assembly President's remark that New Delhi and Islamabad should 'refrain' from changing Jammu & Kashmir's status and said that he has done a great disservice to the office he occupies.
In response to media queries on remarks made by UNGA President Volkan Bozkir on Jammu and Kashmir, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson said, "When an incumbent president of the UN General Assembly makes misleading and prejudiced remarks, he does a great disservice to the office he occupies. The behaviour is truly regrettable and surely diminishes his standing on the global platform."
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His remarks that Pakistan is 'dutybound' to raise this issue in the United Nations more strongly are unacceptable, the spokesperson said, adding that there was no basis for comparison to other global situations.
UNGA President Volkan Bozkir, who was in Pakistan on a three-day tour, had said on Thursday that "Both parties, all parties, must refrain from taking steps that could affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir."
Bozkir, a former Turkish diplomat and politician who assumed UNGA presidentship in September last year, also said, "This is, I think, the very important part of how we look at the case."
In 2019, India repealed Article 370 from the Indian Constitution, which gave special status to the state of Jammu & Kashmir and subsequently divided the state into two Union Territories -- J&K and Ladakh.
However, Pakistan has raised this issue on numerous occasions at various global forums.
Recently in a TV interview, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi accepted that revocation of Article 370 was India's internal matter.
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