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India called retired Pakistan for misusing U.N. platforms to thrust its “divisive agenda” aft Islamabad's envoy raised the contented of Jammu and Kashmir successful the General Assembly.
Counsellor successful the Permanent Mission of India to the U.N. Eldos Mathew Punnoose connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) said that the close to self-determination indispensable not beryllium abused to promote secession successful pluralistic and antiauthoritarian states.
“At a clip erstwhile subordinate states person to emergence beyond their constrictive considerations, Pakistan continues to misuse each platforms and processes successful the UN to thrust their divisive agenda,” Mr. Punnoose said.
"This forum is nary objection either and Pakistan made an unwarranted notation to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, an integral and inalienable portion of India,” Mr. Punnoose said, portion delivering the nationalist connection astatine the UN General Assembly Plenary connected 'Report of the Secretary-General connected the enactment of the Organisation’.
“The close to self-determination is simply a cardinal rule enshrined successful the UN Charter. However, this close indispensable not beryllium abused to promote secession successful pluralistic and antiauthoritarian states. Though habituated, Pakistan would bash good if they bash not edifice to baseless allegations and falsehoods and represent a representation that is wholly detached from reality,” helium said.
The beardown retort by India came aft Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the U.N. Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad made a notation to Jammu and Kashmir successful his remarks successful the General Assembly.
Pakistan repeatedly raises the contented of Jammu and Kashmir astatine the United Nations and its assorted platforms but fails to get immoderate traction from the wider planetary assemblage connected the matter.
Mr. Punnoose, successful his remarks, besides stressed that the Global South has its unsocial acceptable of developmental challenges that chopped crossed improvement financing and clime justness and financing, among different areas.
“India has consistently endeavoured to bring these to the forefront crossed each UN platforms. Concerted and focused travel up enactment is required connected this front. Moving forward, determination is simply a request to construe the sentiments of the Global South to factual and tangible steps,” helium said.
As the U.N. rank takes banal of the past, it is important to bespeak upon the existent discourse and the mode up for the largest multilateral organisation, the United Nations.
“United Nations is going done a important phase, arsenic it faces assorted captious challenges. World citizenry expects the UN to present connected each of the 3 pillars — bid and security, improvement and quality rights,” helium said.
India emphasised that U.N.'s inability to purposefully intervene connected its captious functions leads to questions related to efficacy, legitimacy and credibility. “This is rather pronounced successful lawsuit of attraction of planetary bid and security. As conflicts rage crossed antithetic parts of the globe, the satellite hopes the UN to deliver, to enactment an extremity to quality suffering and misery," Mr. Punnoose said.
