India warns China against internationalising Kashmir issue

Aug 6, 2020

New Delhi: India on Thursday warned China against attempts to internationalise the issue of Kashmir which is its internal matter, after Beijing unsuccessfully initiated a discussion in the UN Security Council on the issue.

The Ministry of External Affairs, while noting that this was not the first time that China has sought to raise a subject that is solely an internal matter of India said, “As on previous such occasions, this attempt too met with little support from the international community.”

”We firmly reject China’s interference in our internal affairs and urge it to draw proper conclusions from such infructuous attempts,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, The government on Wednesday received a letter of support from the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs which held China responsible for the aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.

Chairman and Ranking Democrat Member Eliot Engel and Ranking Republican Member Michael McCaul, wrote jointly on behalf of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, saying that they wanted to demonstrate the strong bipartisan support for the US-India relationship.

We have noted that China initiated a discussion in the UN Security Council on issues pertaining to the Indian Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. This was not the first time that China has sought to raise a subject that is solely an internal matter of India. As on such previous occasions, this attempt too met with little support from the international community. We firmly reject China’s interference in our internal affairs and urge it to draw proper conclusions from such infructuous attempts.

Chairman and Ranking Democrat Member Eliot Engel and Ranking Republican Member Michael McCaul, in a letter writen jointly on behalf of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs said that they wanted to demonstrate the strong bipartisan support for the US-India relationship.

“Members of both parties recognize the impact that a strong US-India partnership will have on the trajectory of the 21st century. As Prime Minister Modi said in February of this year, our ties ‘are no longer just another partnership. It is far greater and closer relationship.’ This closer relationship is all the more important as India faces aggression from China along your shared border, which is part of the Chinese government’s consistent pattern of unlawful and belligerent territorial aggression across the Indo-Pacific.

“The United States will remain steadfast in support of India’s efforts to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the letter addressed to Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar said.

–India News Stream