President of Turkiye raised Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir issue in his address to the 78th United Nations General Assembly as he did last year emphasizing dialogue between India and Pakistan to resolve the dispute but the UN web team skipped the part on IIOJK in the summary of his address posted at UN website gadebate.un.org for the reason known to the administrator of the website only.
President Erdogan is raking up Kashmir at UNGA for last three years continuously. The recent pointing out IIOJK there came only couple of weeks after he was in New Delhi to attend G-20 hosted by India. He met Prime Minister Modi there and both leaders discussed enhancing cooperation in trade and infrastructure. Therefor , Indian government and media is looking at the speech of President Erdogan at UNGA as if something bad has happened with them.
Most of Pakistanis and other many in the world consider Modi and company as very clever and cunning people but I think they are very innocent.
Yes! Innocent in a sense that they expect and try to take the Muslim leaders away from Pakistani stance on IIOJK issue but fail again and again. Modi and company does not understand that IIOJK is internationally recognized , cognizant dispute between two nuclear rivals that can not be thrown away onto the back burner by alluring the world economies to invest in big market of India. It is not about Muslim leaders only but all world level leaders seek peaceful settlement of this dispute through dialogue and according to the aspirations of the local population of Jammu and Kashmir.
President Erdogan’s raising Kashmir and Canadian action against India on the murder of Sikh leader there have multiplied the Indians’ bewilderness and now they do not know what to do than cutting a sorry figure before the world by there lame excuses and explanations.
In the meanwhile, the admin of the website of the UN General Assembly session has astonishingly omitted the portion of President Erdogan that consisted of IIOJK dispute. Here is the summary the admin of the web posted:
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN, President of Türkiye, highlighting increasingly complex global challenges, said that unfortunately it is impossible to draw a more optimistic picture of the world’s future. Conflicts, wars, humanitarian crises and political tensions are getting more and more difficult to deal with. Terrorism — used as an instrument of proxy wars in Syria, Africa and the Sahel region — is causing irreparable damage to the increasingly fragile international security climate, he observed, noting that the areas of operations of terrorist organizations are spreading like an epidemic.
Moreover, the signs of xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia reached alarming levels in the past year, while climate change and natural hazards have become an everyday reality in peoples’ lives.
He recalled that Türkiye recently faced one of the biggest natural hazards in terms of magnitude and the area affected, with more than 50,000 people losing their lives. Similarly, Libya was subjected to heavy destruction and significant loss of life caused by storms and floods where 12,000 people perished and thousands still remain unaccounted for. As a first response to Libya, Türkiye sent three vessels and three planes, along with 567 relief personnel, hundreds of vehicles and thousands of tons of food, shelter and sanitary supplies.
He also noted that his country’s non-governmental organizations are participating in the relief efforts in the region with their own means and capabilities. Against this backdrop, he detailed Türkiye’s vision that eliminates global injustice, addresses economic inequality and produces peace, security and stability. “It’s our call for the establishment of an international system for the benefit of all humanity,” he added.
He went on to underscore that the institutions established after the Second World War no longer reflect today’s world and the Security Council has ceased to be the guarantor of the world’s security and, instead, has become a battleground for political strategies of only five countries. As a country that has pioneered numerous initiatives to strengthen peace and stability, Türkiye attaches great importance to the Secretary-General’s call for a New Agenda for Peace.
“Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, we have been endeavouring to keep both our Russian and Ukrainian friends around the table with a thesis that war has no winners and peace will have no losers,” he said, stressing the need to step up efforts to end the war through diplomacy, on the basis of Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity.
Highlighting that his country ensured the delivery of 33 million tons of grain through the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the global markets, he said the failure to implement the agreement has left the world facing a new crisis. He expressed hope that this humanitarian bridge that extends to the countries in dire need will benefit from negotiations undertaken by Türkiye.
Turning to the situation in Syria, he said the humanitarian tragedy in that country is now marking its thirteenth year and is worsening the living conditions of everyone in the region, regardless of their origin and faith. It is becoming increasingly important to end the crisis with a comprehensive and sustainable solution, he said, noting that the devastating impacts of the 6 February earthquake which affected 14 million people in his country was also deeply felt in Syria.
“We are sick and tired of the hypocrisy of those who are using Da’esh and similar organizations as a front to their own political and economic interests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel, but especially in Syria and Iraq,” he asserted, warning against terrorist organizations, paramilitary groups, mercenaries and local elements that are used as tools of proxy wars. Against this backdrop, he urged for a global governance architecture, emphasizing that “the world is bigger than five and a fairer world is possible”.
He also called for a just and sustainable solution to the Cyprus issue that can no longer be realized on the basis of a federation model; expressed support to the Palestinian people; supported talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia; and voiced support for Afghanistan’s people who are in dire need of humanitarian support.
https://gadebate.un.org/en/78/turkiye
Everything has been covered in this summary except the part of Kashmir. This indicates that it is a deliberate omission by the staff whosoever is behind this desperate move. It is not a big deal if Indian diplomats at UNGA have conspired with the admin of the UNGA web to delete the part on Kashmir. Pakistan can raise this matter with the concerned officials in New York. Indians need to learn that the cat is not vanished if the pigeon closes its eyes.
Tazeen Akhtar
