The Ministry of External Affairs Thursday clarified that India’s position to distance itself in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the settlement to investigate Gaza’s violence is not new and that the country is also not active on previous occasions.
This in response to complaints raised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority denied by New Delhi at UNHRC “printed important work from … advancing human rights for everyone, including the Palestinians”.
Responding to questions about the Palestinian Foreign Minister who wrote to his partner Indian Jaishankar about this issue, spokesman MEA Arinindam Bagchi said similar letters had been written to all countries that were abstained.
“Palestine wrote a similar letter to all countries that were abstained. The position we took was not a new position. And we have been abstained on the previous occasion. I think it explains our position quite clearly and discussed these questions,” said a spokesman who was declared during the spokesman media direction.
In a sharp word to Jaisanhar, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said that “India missed the opportunity to join the international community at this turning point, both very important and old, on the path of accountability, justice and peace.”
India is among the 14 countries that are abstained at UNHRC at a resolution that proposes to establish an investigation into violations around Israeli acts in Gaza, and “systematic” violations in the Palestinian region and in Israel.
