As world leaders descended on New York to speak at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, Chairman of the World Forum for Peace & Justice and a prominent Kashmiri leader Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, has appealed for decisive steps to implement UN Resolutions on the Kashmir dispute.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in a statement, Dr Fai said the silence of the world powers had emboldened India to unleash a chilling campaign of human rights atrocities against innocent Kashmiris.
The statement goes on as: “The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on September 5, 2023, and the high-level segment will take place beginning September 19, 2023, where the Heads of the State and Government will make interventions. This year’s theme is: “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all.” Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations gave hope to the hopeless people of the world when he said, “The world needs peace and peace in line with the United Nations Charter and international law. We must work harder for peace everywhere. If every country fulfilled its obligations under the Charter, the right to peace would be guaranteed.”
Ambassador Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago and the President of the 78th session of the General Assembly echoed the same sentiments by saying, “As the UN’s chief policy making body, the General Assembly bears a special responsibility to ensure that our efforts must be anchored in a robust multilateral system, faithful to the cherished values and principles enshrined in the Charter, our Charter.”
We do applaud the United Nations Charter and the principles enshrined in it, even if all of its lofty provisions safeguarding fundamental human freedoms and liberties remain dishonored in many parts of the globe, it still stands as a moral reproach to wrongdoing nations that may facilitate reforms.
However, sometimes the seeming conspiracy of silence over gross affronts to the United Nations Charter in Indian occupied Kashmir, an occupation which itself violates the UN Charter and still binding United Nations Security Council resolutions dictating a self-determination is worrisome. —KMS
