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The precocious signed Gaza Peace Agreement is simply a “landmark” measurement towards stableness successful the Middle East, India has said, reiterating that a two-state solution remains “the lone pragmatic path” to achieving durable bid betwixt Israel and Palestine.
Speaking astatine the United Nations Security Council’s quarterly unfastened statement connected the concern successful the Middle East connected Thursday (October 24, 2025), India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, said, “It is India's earnest tendency to realise the imaginativeness of a unchangeable and peaceful Middle East... deprivation and indignity cannot beryllium portion of regular life; civilians indispensable not dice owed to conflict.”
India stands afloat acceptable to lend to this endeavour, helium said.
Mr. Harish said New Delhi hoped the “positive diplomatic momentum” generated by the bid acme successful Sharm el-Sheikh earlier this period would pb to “lasting bid successful the region”.
Welcoming the signing of the “landmark” bid deal, the envoy lauded the U.S., “especially” President Donald Trump, for playing an instrumental relation successful forging the deal, and besides commended Egypt and Qatar for their contributions.
After the Israeli Knesset passed a preliminary measure to annex the West Bank, Mr. Harish said, “India remains steadfast successful its presumption that dialog and diplomacy and the two-state solution are the means to execute peace. The landmark inaugural of the United States has generated diplomatic momentum towards peace, and each parties indispensable adhere to their obligations successful this regard.”
“We besides stay firmly opposed to immoderate unilateral moves by parties concerned. Now is the clip for each parties to enactment ongoing bid efforts, alternatively than to derail them,” helium added.
India has consistently advocated a sovereign, independent, viable State of Palestine, surviving broadside by broadside successful bid and information with Israel, wrong unafraid and recognised borders.
“Dialogue and diplomacy, and the two-state solution, are the means to execute peace. The landmark inaugural of the United States has generated diplomatic momentum towards peace, and each parties indispensable adhere to their obligations successful this regard,” Mr. Harish said, adding that India is firmly opposed to immoderate unilateral moves by parties concerned.
The Ambassador recalled that since the October 7, 2023 conflict, India had consistently condemned terrorism, called for an extremity to civilian suffering, demanded the merchandise of hostages, and stressed the request for unimpeded humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
He said India viewed the caller bid statement arsenic “an enabler and a catalyst” for these objectives.
“The short-term gains of the caller diplomatic outcomes indispensable pave the mode for medium- to semipermanent governmental commitments and applicable enactment connected the crushed towards the realisation of a two-state solution,” helium said.
Underscoring India’s enactment for the Palestinian people’s close to self-determination, the envoy referred to past month's UN high-level league connected implementing the two-state solution, saying it had “underlined the mode forward”.
On the humanitarian front, Mr. Harish noted that India had extended implicit $170 cardinal successful full enactment to Palestine, including $40 cardinal worthy of ongoing projects and 135 metric tons of medicines and alleviation supplies successful the past 2 years.
“Palestinian radical cannot rebuild their lives without the enactment of the planetary community,” helium said, calling for the instauration of economical frameworks conducive to concern and employment.
“Peace and calm connected the Palestinian beforehand person implications for the wider region... Talks indispensable proceed and determination indispensable beryllium abiding religion successful the efficacy of dialog and diplomacy,” Mr. Harish said.
Mr. Harish besides touched upon broader determination issues, including Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, underlining India’s continuing humanitarian and peacekeeping contributions.
On Syria, helium reaffirmed India’s backing for a “Syrian-led, Syrian-owned governmental process” and paid tribute to Brigadier General Amitabh Jha, who was killed portion serving arsenic Acting Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) successful December 2024.
India is the third-largest unit contributor to UNDOF.
He besides stressed the information of UN peacekeepers successful Lebanon, wherever India is the second-largest contributor to UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon), and expressed anticipation that the Lebanese Armed Forces would soon instrumentality afloat power erstwhile the mission’s sunset clause takes effect successful 2026.
Mr. Harish besides called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” successful Yemen to let humanitarian assistance to scope civilians, saying specified assistance “must beryllium supra politics”.
(With PTI inputs)
