WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
India on Friday hit out at President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir for his comments on Jammu and Kashmir, Saying his "misleading and prejudiced" remarks does "great disservice to the office he occupies".
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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The President of the UNGA is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis.
The President is the chair and presiding officer of theGeneral Assembly.
The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asia-Pacific, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States
In particular, it is customary that no permanent member of the United Nations Security Council ever serves as UNGA president. The only countries that had a national elected as President of UNGA twice are Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Nigeria; All the other member states had been represented only once by their nationals holding this office.
On 17 June 2020, Volkan Bozkir of Turkey was
elected the President of the 75th session of
the UN General Assembly
NOW WHAT & WHY HE SAID?
UNGA president Volkan Bozkir was speaking at a joint news conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday, As he completed a three-day visit to the Muslim-majority nation.
“Both parties, all parties, must refrain from taking steps that could affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir.”
“This is I think the very important part of how we look at the case.”
“I must also reiterate that the United Nations’ position on Jammu and Kashmir is governed by the United Nations charter, and applicable Security Council resolutions,” he said. “India and Pakistan’s Simla Agreement of 1972 which says that the final status of Jammu and Kashmir is to be settled by peaceful means in accordance with the UN Charter.
The Simla Agreement, signed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972, Is a bilateral agreement that rejects any third-party mediation on the Kashmir issue.
“I think it is the duty, especially Pakistan’s to bring this (Kashmir issue) to the United Nation platform more strongly.” He also said a meeting could be held on the matter if a group of countries submit an application.
He also noted that Palestine has more “political wind” behind it, Whereas the Kashmir issue doesn’t have the “same enlarged political wind behind it”.
In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said his remarks are "unacceptable" and his reference to the Indian union territory is "unwarranted".
"When an incumbent President of the UN General Assembly makes misleading and prejudiced remarks, he does great disservice to the office he occupies. The President of the UN General Assembly's behaviour is truly regrettable and surely diminishes his standing on the global platform," MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
“His remarks that Pakistan is “duty bound” to raise this issue in the UN more strongly are unacceptable. Nor indeed is there any basis for comparison to other global situations,” he said.
S Jaishankar accused Islamabad of allowing “infiltration” of pro-independence fighters into Kashmir from the POK. In February, in a surprise announcement, the militaries of both countries reaffirmed their commitment to a 2003 ceasefire agreement at the Line of Control “The reason for firing is infiltration, so if there is no infiltration there’s obviously no reason to fire.
Q. Which of the following is not function of United Nations Development Programme?
A) Protect refugees worldwide
B) Poverty reduction
C) Crisis prevention and recovery
D) Energy and environment
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