New Delhi: UNGA President Volkan Bozkir is saddened by India’s reaction to his statements on Kashmir, according to his Deputy Spokesperson Amy Quantrill, who has asserted that they were taken out of context.
Referring to Kashmir at a news conference in Islamabad last week, Bozkir said, “I think it is the duty, especially Pakistan’s, to bring this to the United Nation platform more strongly.”
Speaking with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at his side, Bozkir also endorsed Islamabad’s attempts — so far unsuccessful — to link the Kashmir issue to the Palestine problem.
Reacting to Bozkir’s statements, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi had said in a strongly worded statement, “When an incumbent President of the UN General Assembly makes misleading and prejudiced remarks, he does great disservice to the office he occupies. The President of the UN General Assembly’s behaviour is truly regrettable and surely diminishes his standing on the global platform.”