India has said that it will not respond to Pakistan's mention of Kashmir in a Security Council meeting about the Israel-Gaza conflict, treating it with the disdain it merits.
The remarks by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came after Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram made reference to Kashmir at the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
“Before I end, there was a remark of habitual nature by one delegation referring to Union Territories that are integral and inalienable parts of my country,” Ravindra said.
“I would treat these remarks with contempt they deserve and not dignify them with a response in the interest of time,” Ravindra said.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Security Council meeting that all acts of terrorism, whether they are carried out by Hamas, which targets people in Mumbai, or by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terror group located in Pakistan, are illegal and indefensible.
“We must affirm the right of any nation to defend itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself. No member of this Council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people,” Blinken said.
“As this Council and the UN General Assembly have repeatedly affirmed, all acts of terrorism are unlawful and unjustifiable. They're unlawful and unjustifiable, whether they target people in Nairobi or Bali… Istanbul or Mumbai, New York or Kibbutz Be’eri,” Blinken told the UN Security Council.