I shall be brief.
We have taken note of the Secretary-General’s report (A/78/901) and its contents. India’s consistent position on the responsibility to protect (R2P) is well known. The responsibility to protect its population is
one of the foremost responsibilities of every State. The right to li…
My delegation joins others in thanking Ms. Natalie Morris-Sharma and Mr. Andreas Kravik for successfully coordinating this year’s consultations on the draft omnibus resolution on oceans and the law of the sea (A/78/L.15) and on sustainable fisheries (A/78/L.13), which we will adopt shortly. My deleg…
My delegation would like to thank Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, for presenting an eloquent report (see A/78/PV.20) on the judicial activities of the Court for the period from 1 August 2022 to 31 July this year (A/78/4). We thank her and the Vice-President o…
We heard today another statement from the delegation of Pakistan that was devoid of facts and full of vicious propaganda that does not stand up to scrutiny — especially against my country, where democracy runs in our veins, religious freedom is constitutionally guaranteed, institutions run strong an…
I am constrained to take the floor to exercise India’s right of reply to respond to Pakistan’s blatant abuse of this forum.
Pakistan has made a habit of abusing the sanctity of every United Nations forum by spreading falsehoods. For a nation that is encouraging sectarian violence
against minoritie…
Let me begin by welcoming the Secretary-General’s report (A/76/780), which is a comprehensive catalogue of information about the interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) over the past two years, with a particular focus on achieving the 2030…
I take this opportunity to thank Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), for his briefing and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for presenting the twentieth progress report concerning the Residual Mechanism.
The Residual Mechanism, in line with…
At the outset, let me thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings and for their assessment of the work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Allow me to commend President Agius for his stewardship of the process and for ensuring that the Mechanism rem…
My delegation joins all the delegations in the Hall in thanking Ms. Natalie Morris-Sharma of Singapore, who has very ably coordinated this year’s consultations for the draft omnibus resolution on oceans and the law of the sea (A/76/L.20). We would also like to thank Mr. Andreas Kravik of Norway, for…
We are forced to take the floor once again to respond to some frivolous remarks made
by the representative of Pakistan earlier. This is not the first time that the representative of Pakistan has misused platforms provided by the United Nations to propagate false and malicious propaganda against my …
Allow me at the outset to thank Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, for her detailed and comprehensive presentation of the Court’s report (A/76/4) for the period between August 2020 and 31 July 2021. We also offer our condolences for the sad demise of Judge Crawf…
