TIL Desk/World/New York/ India has rejected references made by Pakistan on the Kashmir issue in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting as the matter is internal to India, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said on Wednesday (local time).
“As far as OIC is concerned, we always note with regret that the matter, which is very internal to Indian affairs, was again discussed at OIC. We reject such references to a matter very internal to India.
We have said in the past that OIC has no locus standi to comment on India’s internal affairs. We feel that it is completely unwarranted to discuss a matter related to India’s internal affairs in any multi-cultural setup,” he said at a press conference here.
Earlier, India’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin, had called Pakistan a ‘one-trick-pony’ for raking up the Kashmir issue at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and asserted that India was confident of handling the situation.
Responding to a question about the possibility of the neighbour country raking up the issue of Kashmir at the UNGA, Akbaruddin stated that the UN works best on multilateralism, adding that ‘single act plays have no resonance in such matters.’
