Islamabad, April 11, 2023 (PPI-OT):Pakistan has expressed its strong indignation over India’s decision to hold the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting in Srinagar on 22-24 May 2023. The Foreign Office Spokesperson in a statement in Islamabad, today, said, “Scheduling of two other meetings of a consultative forum on youth affairs (Y-20) in Leh and Srinagar in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is equally disconcerting.” “India’s irresponsible move is the latest in a series of self-serving measures to perpetuate its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir in sheer disregard of the UN Security Council resolutions and in violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law. Pakistan vehemently condemns these moves,” the statement added.

Such events, the FO spokesperson said, cannot hide the reality of Jammu and Kashmir being an internationally recognized dispute that has remained on the agenda of United Nations Security Council for over seven decades. “Nor could such activities divert international community’s attention from India’s brutal suppression of the people of IIOJK including illegal attempts to change the demographic composition of the occupied territory.”

With its decision to host G-20 events in IIOJK, India is again exploiting its membership of an important international grouping for advancing its self-serving agenda, the statement said and added that for a country that has a grandiose vision about itself and its place in the world, India has once more demonstrated that it is unable to act as a responsible member of the international community.

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