A revised version presented on 1 October reflects the Western double standards and the continuous desire of the UNHRC to bend over backwards to please the West. The most shocking aspect is that the recommendations in the report were made without consultation with the Government of Sri Lanka.
Op Sindoor was motivated by the Security Council statement on “the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors” of the Pahalgam attack accountable and it targeted terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
Rulers and decision makers must deter aggression and a calculated pursuit of violence in today's world” by nations “impelled by political goals such as territorial expansion or domination, or by deviant nonstate actors and terrorists who sow fear and destruction due to their deviant belief systems”, he said.
When asked about the Mumbai 26/11 attackers who came from Pakistan and the presence of internationally declared terrorists like Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of that attack, and even Osama bi Laden in his country, his response was: “You know this is the kind of discussion I would like to avoid”.
Staying true to its traditionally neutral and nonaligned stand, especially on global issues outside its sphere of influence or core security interests, India abstained for the third time on a Security Council vote on Ukraine and said it welcomed the decision by Ukraine and Russia to hold talks
The United Nations Security Council is to meet on Sunday (early Monday India time) in a hastily convened session to vote on a resolution to convene an emergency meeting of the General Assembly to take up the Ukraine crisis
India has been assigned a key role in the US Indo-Pacific strategy which says it would "support India's continued rise and regional leadership". Now, ironically India has found itself alongside China in the Security Council balancing act
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet acknowledged Sri Lanka’s legal, institutional, and constitutional reforms, but added concerns remain about the lack of accountability in Sri Lanka after gross violations of human rights
India, along with China and the United Arab Emirates, abstained on a Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The UN resolution would be a test of India's position in a post-Cold War world that is quickly plunging into a new Cold War
As Russian President Vladimir Putin announced “special military operations” in Ukraine even as the Security Council was meeting in a late-night emergency session, India warned of a looming major crisis
India's statement was one of the mildest straddling the East and the West while most of the members roundly criticised Putin's actions
In what comes as huge relief to Afghan teachers, who remain unpaid for months, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has said it will pay a fixed stipend for two months to support them
Tirumurti expressed India's support for the Minsk Agreements and the Normandy format of diplomacy for finding a solution to the Ukraine situation
The United Kingdom will co-host next month an international aid conference for Afghanistan with the United Nations, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed on Tuesday, as the UN seeks $4.4 billion, the largest the UN has ever sought for a single country for meeting the growing humanitarian needs
The lack of progress in the investigations involving the killings of journalists in Bangladesh highlights an “appalling and pervasive culture of impunity” in the country, the United Nations’ human rights monitors said, urging authorities to “conduct thorough, independent and effective investigations”
'There are no recent signs that the Taliban has taken steps to limit the activities of foreign terrorist fighters in the country', the UN report said
About eight to nine people, who were among 76 listed as missing by the United States, have reappeared, a senior Bangladesh official said, amid reports that authorities were coercing families to give false testimonies about victims
A UN rights body has called for the release of four Afghan women activists and their relatives detained or arrested by the Taliban in the last few weeks
