{"id":997,"date":"2025-03-04T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/india-slams-un-human-rights-chiefs-remarks-on-kashmir-and-manipur\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:40:36","slug":"india-slams-un-human-rights-chiefs-remarks-on-kashmir-and-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/india-slams-un-human-rights-chiefs-remarks-on-kashmir-and-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"India slams UN Human Rights Chief\u2019s remarks on Kashmir and Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.optcms.com\/www.indianewsnetwork.com\/assets\/2025\/202503\/20250304-wsfl20250304131as.jpg\" alt=\"India slams UN Human Rights Chief\u2019s remarks on Kashmir and Manipur\"><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Arindam Bagchi<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>India on Monday took strong exception to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk\u2019s remarks on situations in Kashmir and Manipur.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Terming the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights\u2019 comment on Kashmir and Manipur as \u201cunfounded and baseless,\u201d India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Arindam Bagchi slammed the report for referring Jammu and Kashmir to Kashmir.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> He said, \u201cNothing illustrates this divergence more than the passing reference to Jammu and Kashmir, erroneously referred to as Kashmir.\u201d<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Bagchi said this misrepresentation took place at the time when the region had witnessed remarkable improvements in peace and development.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> \u201cThis is ironic in a year that stood out for the region\u2019s improving security, record voter turnout in provincial elections, booming tourism, and rapid infrastructure growth,\u201d India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva said.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> His strong reaction came after UN High Commission for Human Rights Volker Turk mentioned India and referred to the situation in Manipur and Kashmir in his global update to the 58th\u00a0session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> \u201cAs India was mentioned by name, let me begin by emphasising that the world&#8217;s largest democracy continues to be a healthy, vibrant, and pluralistic society. Unfounded and baseless comments in the update contrast jarringly with ground realities,\u201d Bagchi said.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva said the people of India have \u201crepeatedly proven wrong such misplaced concerns about us\u201d and \u201cwe would urge a better understanding of India and our civilisational ethos of diversity and openness, which continue to define our robust and often cacophonous civic space.\u201d<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Maintaining that the global update needs \u201cgenuine\u201d information, the Indian envoy said \u201cat a larger level, we are concerned about the global update\u2019s oversimplifications of complex issues, sweeping and generalized remarks, usage of loose terminologies and apparent cherry picking of situations.\u201d<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> \u201cThe High Commissioner has sensed a pervasive unease, but we would submit that a key element to addressing this is a long and hard look in the mirror by the Office of the High Commissioner,\u201d Bagchi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Arindam Bagchi India on Monday took strong exception to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk\u2019s remarks on situations in Kashmir and Manipur. \u00a0 Terming the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights\u2019 comment on Kashmir and Manipur as \u201cunfounded and baseless,\u201d India\u2019s Permanent Representative to &#8230; <a title=\"India slams UN Human Rights Chief\u2019s remarks on Kashmir and Manipur\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/india-slams-un-human-rights-chiefs-remarks-on-kashmir-and-manipur\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about India slams UN Human Rights Chief\u2019s remarks on Kashmir and Manipur\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}