NEW YORK
\nPakistan has strongly protested India\u2019s decision to hold Group of 20 meetings in the UN-recognised disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir later this month, and urged New Delhi not to misuse its position as chair of the body of world\u2019s largest economies to \u201cadvance their own national agenda.\u201d
\n\u201cThese stage-managed events are designed to project a false normalcy in occupied Jammu & Kashmir,\u201d Ambassador Munir Akram told an ambassadorial-level meeting of the Group of 77, which now has 134 members and is the United Nations\u2019 biggest intergovernmental group of emerging countries.
\nIndia currently holds the rotating year-long presidency of the G20 and is set to host a leaders\u2019 summit in New Delhi in early September. Wednesday\u2019s meeting was convened to hear from India\u2019s UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj about the agenda of a series of meetings leading up to the summit, which included G20 and Youth 20 meetings in Srinagar and in Leh, in the neighbouring region of Ladakh.
\n\u201cIn this context,\u201d Ambassador Akram said, \u201cPakistan is obliged to register its strong protest at India\u2019s decision to hold one or more G-20 meetings in the UN-recognized disputed territory of Jammu & Kashmir, which India occupies in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions and where the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people, and other fundamental rights, are being suppressed by an occupation force of 900,000 Indian troops.\u201d
\nThe Pakistani envoy reminded delegates of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and over a dozen Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council, having asked India for access to Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir to investigate reports of gross violations of human rights.
\n\u201cInstead of inviting G-20 delegations,\u201d Ambassador Akram added, \u201cIndia should accede to the request of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the dozen or more human rights Special Rapporteurs, and invite them to occupied Kashmir, provide them unhindered access to the territory and its people and thus enable them to observe and report on the reality of the massive oppression in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir.\u201d
\nReacting to the Pakistani envoy\u2019s statement, India\u2019s Ambassador said her country\u2019s position on Kashmir was well known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK Pakistan has strongly protested India\u2019s decision to hold Group of 20 meetings in the UN-recognised disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir later this month, and urged New Delhi not to misuse its position as chair of the body of world\u2019s largest economies to \u201cadvance their own national agenda.\u201d \u201cThese stage-managed events are designed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12616],"class_list":{"0":"post-330629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-akram"},"yoast_head":"\n