Washington | Indian Ambassador to the UN Syed Akbaruddin has maintained that end of special status to Jammu and Kashmir an internal matter, after the closed UNSC meet.
Akbaruddin said that China and Pakistan had imparted more importance to the meeting than was required.
“After the end of the Security Council’s closed consultations, we noted that two states who made national statements tried to pass them off as the will of the international community,” he said.
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He reiterated India’s stand since the government revoked Article 370, and said,” “The Security Council is a very deliberative… institution. It works in a very considered manner. Its outcomes are provided to all of us through the [UNSC] President. So if national statements try to masquerade as the will of the international community, I thought I will come across to you too and explain our national position,”.
Akbaruddin told reporters that the abrogation of Article 370 was done to enhance good governance and socio-economic development in Jammu and Kashmir and that the UNSC consultations had taken note of this.
Akbaruddin said the U.N. Security Council had appreciated India’s efforts to restore normalcy in Kashmir.
“The Chief Secretary of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir announced a whole set of measures that the government is undertaking to move towards normalcy. We are gratified that the Security Council in its closed consultations appreciated these efforts, acknowledged them and indicated that this was the direction in which they would like the international community to move,” he said.
He asserted that India’s move has been accepted broadly on a global level.
When asked when they would start peace-talk with Pakistan, he said,”Stop terror to start talks”.
“There will be issues discussed and if there are issues these will be addressed by our courts. We don’t need international busybodies to try and tell us how to run our lives. We are a billion-plus people,” he said.
Meanwhile, A diplomat from a UNSC Member State told The Hindu that the majority of UNSC members backed a bilateral dialogue in accordance with the Simla Agreement.
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