Bharat has said it will treat a reference by Pakistan
to Kashmir during a Security Council meeting on the Israel-Gaza situation with
the contempt it deserves and will not dignify it with a response.
The remarks by ’s Deputy Permanent Representative at
the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came on Tuesday after Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir
Akram made reference to Kashmir at the Security Council meeting on the
situation in the Middle East.
“Before I end, there was a remark of habitual nature
by one delegation referring to Union Territories that are integral and
inalienable parts of my country,” said Ravindra.
“I would treat these remarks with the contempt they
deserve and not dignify them with a response in the interest of time,” he added.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the
Security Council meeting that all acts of terrorism are unlawful and
unjustifiable, whether they are carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, the
Pakistan-based terror outfit, or by Hamas, targeting people in Mumbai or
Kibbutz Beeri.
“We must affirm the right of any nation to defend
itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself. No member of this
Council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of
its people,” Blinken said.
“As this Council and the UN General Assembly have
repeatedly affirmed, all acts of terrorism are unlawful and unjustifiable. They’re
unlawful and unjustifiable, whether they target people in Nairobi or Bali…
Istanbul or Mumbai, in New York or Kibbutz Be’eri,” Blinken told the UN
Security Council.
“They are unlawful and unjustifiable whether they’re
carried out by ISIS, by Boko Haram, by Al Shabaab, by Lashkar-e-Taiba or by
Hamas. They are unlawful and unjustifiable whether victims are targeted for
their faith, their ethnicity, their nationality or any other reason,” Blinken
said.
He stressed that the Security Council has a
responsibility to denounce member states that arm, fund and train Hamas or “any
other terrorist group that carries out such horrific acts.”
Blinken’s remarks appeared to make a reference to the
26/11 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist
organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.
PTI
