New Delhi: India in its statement in the Report of the Security Council for 2019 has demanded Kashmir's permanent removal from the United Nations Security Council's agenda, something Pakistan keeps on raking.
In the statement, India also hit out at Pakistan and said that a delegation keeps pushing for discussions on an outdated agenda item in the Council which for all matter needs to be removed from the Council’s agenda permanently.
Since the abrogation of special status for the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation into 2 Union Territories in August 2019, Pakistan along with China have tried to raise the matter three times.
The attempts have met with failure with informal closed-door discussions happening with no outcomes and other members of the council reiterating that Kashmir is a bilateral India-Pakistan issue.
The last time Kashmir was formally raised at UNSC was in 1965, according to the UN records.
India in its statement also highlighted how Islamabad has attempted to "rebrand itself as contributing to international peace" but "unfortunately fails to recognize that it is globally known for being the fountainhead of international terror and the hub for terror syndicates."
A UN report earlier this year showed that around 6000-6500 Pakistani terrorists are operating in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the statement called on UNSC report should not be just "statistical compilation of events, a bland summary and listing of meetings and outcome documents" and must "highlight and analyze the measures that it has decided upon or taken to maintain international peace and security during the reporting period".
New Delhi also pointed out how the report was short of analysis on the UN peacekeeping operations and since most peacekeepers are contributed by non-Council members who put the lives of their troops at risk to serve the cause of international peace, a better partnership between the Security Council and the Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs) is needed.
India's statement asked the Security Council to prove its credibility and improve its performance as performance assessment has become one of the focus areas at the United Nations.
