Pakistan on Tuesday voiced its \u201cstrong indignation\u201d of India\u2019s plans to convene meetings linked with G20 in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying such a move was \u201cself-serving\u201d on New Delhi\u2019s part.<\/p>\n
The third meeting of G20 Tourism Working Group under India\u2019s G20 Presidency will be held from May 22 to 24 in Srinagar, according to the Times of India.<\/p>\n
India assumed the year-long presidency of the G20 in December last year. It is set to host a leaders\u2019 summit in New Delhi in early September.<\/p>\n
On Friday, India released a full calendar of events leading up to the summit, which included G20 and Youth 20 meetings in occupied Kashmir\u2019s Srinagar and in Leh, in the neighbouring region of Ladakh, in April and May.<\/p>\n
According to a statement, the Foreign Office expressed strong indignation at New Delhi\u2019s decision to hold the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting in Srinagar on May 22-24.<\/p>\n
The scheduling of two other meetings of a consultative forum on youth affairs (Y20) in Leh and Srinagar in occupied Kashmir was termed by the FO as \u201cequally disconcerting\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia\u2019s irresponsible move is the latest in a series of self-serving measures to perpetuate its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir in sheer disregard of the UN Security Council resolutions and in violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law,\u201d the Foreign Office said. \u201cPakistan vehemently condemns these moves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement further asserted that such events could not obscure the \u201creality\u201d of Jammu and Kashmir being an internationally recognised dispute that had remained on the UNSC\u2019s agenda for more than seven decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cNor could such activities divert international community\u2019s attention from India\u2019s brutal suppression of the people of IIOJK including illegal attempts to change the demographic composition of the occupied territory,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
By electing to host G20 events in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the FO said, India is once again \u201cexploiting its membership of an important international grouping to advance its self-serving agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the statement underlined that India, which has a \u201cgrandiose vision\u201d about itself and its place in the world, had once more demonstrated that it was \u201cunable to act as a responsible member of the international community\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Office had in June last year cautioned G20 countries against accepting Delhi\u2019s proposal for holding some of the meetings of the bloc\u2019s next year\u2019s summit in India-held Jammu and Kas\u00adh\u00admir, saying it was India\u2019s attempt to legitimise its illegal control of the disputed region.<\/p>\n
The G20 is an intergovernmental forum of the world\u2019s 20 major developed and developing economies, making it the premier forum for international economic cooperation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan on Tuesday voiced its \u201cstrong indignation\u201d of India\u2019s plans to convene meetings linked with G20 in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying such a move was \u201cself-serving\u201d on New Delhi\u2019s part. The third meeting of G20 Tourism Working Group under India\u2019s G20 Presidency will be held from May 22 to 24 in Srinagar, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-325174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n