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India has slammed Pakistan for its “unwarranted reference” to Jammu and Kashmir astatine the UN, telling the existent non-permanent subordinate of the planetary assemblage that it was a immense work and not a forum for peddling “biased and mendacious narratives”.
“The unwarranted notation by Pakistan to a substance strictly interior to India, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has compelled maine to respond,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said connected Friday (June 5, 2026).
The beardown retort by Mr. Harish came aft Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad raised the contented of Jammu and Kashmir successful his remarks successful the UN General Assembly connected Friday (June 5, 2026) connected the ‘Annual Report of the Security Council’.
Pakistan, which perpetually raises the contented of Jammu and Kashmir arsenic good arsenic different topics interior to India astatine assorted UN platforms, presently sits successful the Security Council arsenic a non-permanent subordinate and its tenure volition extremity this year.
Mr. Harish said successful the UNGA hallway that Pakistan has decided not to spare this forum either from their diagnostic misuse of august UN platforms for their divisive governmental interests.
“Abuse of its beingness connected the Security Council by Pakistan, including done the circulation of respective misinformed and misleading communications besides testifies to this counter-productive approach. I would similar to punctual Pakistan that being a subordinate of the UN Security Council is simply a immense responsibility. It is not a forum for peddling biased and mendacious narratives,” Mr. Harish said.
Making it wide that Jammu and Kashmir was, is and volition ever stay an integral and inalienable portion of India, Harish emphasised that immoderate assertions to the contrary are baseless, devoid of and inconsistent with humanities facts.
“Empty rhetoric and hollow claims by Pakistan would not alteration this cardinal reality. In the involvement of clip of the wider UN membership, I would not delve immoderate further into this,” helium said.
The Indian Envoy besides pointed retired that the planetary assemblage recognises the value of betterment of the Security Council to marque it fit-for-purpose to grip modern and aboriginal challenges we face.
“The existent operation reflects geopolitical realities of 1945. Retaining the staus quo has truthful acold not enabled effectual functioning of the Security Council and cannot bash truthful successful future,” helium said.
He noted that the “marginal” betterment successful the 1960s that expanded lone the non-permanent class has not changed the cardinal mode of functioning of the Security Council successful immoderate impactful manner.
“Expansion of some imperishable and non-permanent categories is cardinal to implementing existent and meaningful reform,” helium said.
The G4 nations of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan person projected that Security Council rank needs to beryllium accrued from the existent 15 to 25 oregon 26, with a reformed Council consisting of 11 imperishable members and 14 oregon 15 non-permanent members.
Currently, the almighty UN organ consists of 5 veto-wielding imperishable members — China, France, Russia, the UK and the US.
The remaining 10 members are elected to beryllium astatine the horseshoe array for two-year presumption arsenic non-permanent members. India past sat successful the Council arsenic a non-permanent subordinate successful 2021-22.
