We thank you, Madam President, for convening this open debate on this important issue. We also thank the Secretary-General and the other briefers for their useful remarks.
The normative and operative frameworks relating to the women and peace and security agenda have considerably strengthened acros…
I thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing today’s debate. We would also like to thank the delegation of Germany for facilitating the very important draft resolution contained in document A/73/L.44. My delegation attaches great importance to the consensual adoption of the General A…
We have heard the delegation of Pakistan yet again make unwarranted remarks about an integral part of India. I take the floor to exercise India’s right of reply to those references.
Our position on those grossly misleading and cynical attempts is well known. We reiterated during the recent general …
This morning, my delegation came to the Assembly to listen attentively to the new Foreign Minister of Pakistan outline his vision for a new Pakistan (see A/73/PV.14). What we heard instead was about a new Pakistan cast in the mould of the old Pakistan. I am therefore compelled to take the floor to e…
I am taking the floor to respond to the remarks made by the Permanent Representative of Pakistan in the debate earlier today.
Even as we heard speakers address concerns of the present and the future, we also heard a lonely voice from the wilderness articulate a narrative of the past. That voice foc…
I take the floor to exercise India’s right of reply in response to Pakistan’s defence of terrorism. It is extraordinary that the State that protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah
Omar should have the gumption to play the victim. By now, all of Pakistan’s neighbours are painfully familiar wi…
We have patiently listened to our colleague from Pakistan. He has chosen yet again to stay silent on the tough questions. That is what we have come to expect from Pakistan — deception, deceit and denial. The world still awaits their response.
In yet another attempt to divert our attention from her country’s continued sponsorship of terorrism, today we have heard the Permanent Representative of Pakistan make a fanciful and misleading presentation on the situation in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir. At the same time, we did not see a…
I take the floor today in exercise of the right of reply in response to the long tirade earlier today by the representative of Pakistan about the situation in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir (see A/71/PV.11). The worst violation of human rights is terrorism; when practiced as an instrument of …
