{"id":20610,"date":"2023-05-20T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2023-05-20T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T10:32:54","slug":"china-bursts-the-indian-balloon-of-g20-conference-in-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/china-bursts-the-indian-balloon-of-g20-conference-in-srinagar\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA BURSTS THE INDIAN BALLOON OF G20 CONFERENCE IN SRINAGAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"BEIJING : Monitoring Desk – China will not attend the upcoming G20 meeting in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday. Earlier The Hindu reported that<\/em> Indian government announced that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have yet to confirm their attendance, indicating they too are likely to skip the meeting.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cChina firmly opposes holding any form of G20 meetings in disputed territories, and will not attend such meetings, he said during his regular briefing held at International Press Center (IPC).<\/h5>\n
India has a plan to host the G20 summit meeting on tourism from May 22 to May 24 at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Center in Srinagar, Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/h5>\n
\u201cA total of 60 international delegates have registered so far for the Third working group meeting to be held from May 22-24,\u201d Union Tourism Secretary Arvind Singh said on May 19, briefing the media in Delhi. \u201cA total of 17 G-20 member countries have confirmed their participation till now. Those who have still not registered are China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The number of invited countries is 9 out of which only Egypt has not registered so far, Mr. Singh added.<\/h5>\n
The Hindu reported that none of the Embassies in Delhi of the non-participating countries replied to requests for comments about whether their non-registration thus far indicated a \u201cboycott\u201d for political reasons. While China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are G-20 members, Egypt is a special invitee this year, and their decision not to attend what the government is promoting as the \u201cfirst international event\u201d in Jammu Kashmir since the reorganisation of the former State and amendment of Article 370 in August 2019, appear to have diplomatic undertones.<\/h5>\n
China had earlier skipped G-20 meetings in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, which it considers \u201cdisputed territory\u201d and its decision not to send a delegation to Srinagar is understood to be in line with that. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are all members of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), that had been very critical of India\u2019s changes in Jammu and Kashmir. However, other OIC members like\u00a0Bangladesh, Indonesia, Oman, and UAE have confirmed their participation in the event, the Tourism secretary confirmed. While Indonesia is a key \u201cTroika\u201d member, along with India and Brazil, it is sending a single diplomat from the Embassy in Delhi, sources said.<\/h5>\n
The MEA did not respond on Friday to requests for a comment on the non-participation by key G-20 members as well as an invitee.\u00a0On Tuesday, India\u2019s mission in Geneva had strongly rejected a statement by UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues\u00a0Fernand de Varennes, who had criticised the event being held in Srinagar as an effort to \u201cnormalise\u201d alleged human rights violations and the \u201cdenial of democratic and other rights\u201d that he said were \u201congoing\u201d.<\/h5>\n
\u201cAs G-20 President, it\u2019s India\u2019s prerogative to host its meetings in any part of the country,\u201d the Indian mission replied, adding that it was \u201caghast\u201d at the Special Rapporteur\u2019s \u201cmisuse of his position\u201d and attempt to \u201cpoliticise the issue\u201d<\/h5>\n
In Srinagar, officials said preparations for the high-profile event are nearly complete, with all roads leading from Srinagar airport to the Sher I Kashmir Convention Centre that will be the venue of the conference, freshly painted in bright colours. The delegates will be driven into the city under elaborate multi-tier security arrangements and will stay at a number of high-end hotels along the Dal Lake, the official said, adding that police personnel on duty have been asked \u201cto extend proper protocol to the delegates from different nationalities.\u201d<\/h5>\n
The Tourism Ministry is also organising events dedicated to encourage \u201cfilm tourism\u201d amongst international and domestic crews. Industry stakeholders will also provide suggestions on encouraging filmmakers to shoot in various locations across the country, the officials said and the government would unveil a draft \u2018National Strategy on Film Tourism\u2019 at the meeting.\u00a0In a bid to promote local products, souvenirs given to delegates would include papier mache Boxes, saffron from Pampore, kawa cups and brass spoon and walnuts from Anantnag, Shopian and Kupwara. Mr. Singh said that an earlier plan to take delegates to Gulmarg during the three-day meeting was shelved due to a large increase in the number of delegates.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIJING : Monitoring Desk – China will not attend the upcoming G20 meeting in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday. Earlier The Hindu reported that Indian government announced that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have yet to confirm their attendance, indicating they too are likely to skip the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[54,697,141,3536,395,373,383,2589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20612,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions\/20612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}