(Resumed) Upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centered international system - Security Council, 10159th meeting

🇵🇰 Pakistan

1. 🇵🇰 PakistanFirst replyin response to India▶ 3:04:14 · 5 min

   Mr. President, I have been compelled to take the floor to respond to the fallacious remarks of the Indian representative. These remarks were not a defense. They were a confession by a state that is deeply uncomfortable with facing the truth of its own abominable record. That truth begins with Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. It is not India's internal matter, but an internationally recognized dispute on the agenda of this council brought by India itself. By refusing to implement Security Council resolution on Jammu and Kashmir, India defies the UN Charter, including Article 25, which obliges member states to accept and carry out the decisions of this Council. India's reckless attempt to hold the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance reveals yet another dangerous disregard for international law. Treaties are instruments of peace, not weapons of war. And when a state threatens the water, food security, livelihood, and right to water of millions of Pakistanis, it does not merely violate a treaty. It assaults the very principles of humanity, legality, and peaceful coexistence enshrined in the UN Charter. Mr. President, regarding terrorism, India may export violence abroad through state-sponsored terrorism from terrorist proxies to extrajudicial assassinations, but it cannot hide its fingerprints in the country of origin. Kulbushin Jadev remains a living evidence of India's covert operations inside Pakistan. The TTP, BLA, and Majeed Brigade, aided, financed, and operated from Afghan soil, have killed thousands of innocent civilians in Pakistan. Just a couple of days ago on 24th May, the Kuetatrain bombing, whose responsibility was claimed by BLA once again showed the human cost of Indian sponsored terrorism, killing and injuring numerous Pakistani nationals, including innocent men, women, and children who were on their way to celebrate Eid with their loved ones. Mr. President. At home, India's Hindutwa project against more than 200 million Muslims is being carried out through genocidal acts. Genocide Watch has warned of the risk of genocide against Muslims in India. And the signs are visible to the international community. Pogroms of Muslims in Gujarat and Dahli, lynching by cow vigilantes, mob violence, demolition of mosques and homes of Muslims, discriminatory laws and Islamophobic rhetoric against Muslims by Hindutwa zealots and politicians. Muslims are not the only victims. Sikhs are disenfranchised, Dalits are dehumanized, and Christians are persecuted in the largest hypocrisy of the world. Mr. President, let me remind the Indian Representative that today's debate is about upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centered international system. India blatantly flouts the very principles at the heart of this theme: sovereign equality through carrying out aggression against all its neighbors, peaceful settlement of disputes. Through its refusal to resolve Jammu and Kashmir and other disputes, right to self-determination of Kashmiris, through denial to implement Security Council resolutions, non-intervention through terrorism and covert operations, respect for human rights through repression of minorities and oppression of Kashmiris, and sanctity of the UN Charter and other treaties through upholding in abeyance, holding in abeyance of the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan's conduct is faithful to the theme of this debate. We uphold the Charter in its entirety. Promote peaceful settlement of disputes in our region and beyond, respect international law and the UN Charter, and maintain a principled commitment to the UN centered international system. History will remember the difference. Peace is built by those who honor the charter in conduct, not by those who invoke it in words while violating in practice. I thank you.

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