Dealing with tumult in the house, Erdogan sings Pakistani tune on Kashmir at UNGA

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday raised the Kashmir problem at the UN General Assembly, requiring a resolution through discussion and UN resolutions, echoing Pakistan’s tune.

“We are pleased with the ceasefire attained following the stress last April in between Pakistan and India, which had actually intensified into a dispute … The problem of Kashmir need to be fixed on the basis of the resolutions of the UN, for the very best of our siblings and siblings in Kashmir, through discussion, we hope,” Erdogan stated.

This was not the very first time Erdogan spoke on Kashmir at the UN. While he prevented the problem in 2015’s General Assembly address, he had actually required a resolution previously this year throughout a check out to Pakistan, stating, “The Kashmir problem must be attended to according to the UN resolution through discussion and bearing in mind the goals of individuals of Kashmir. Our state and our country, as in the past, stands in uniformity with our Kashmiri bros today.”

India highly declined Erdogan’s remarks. “Jammu and Kashmir is an essential part of India. No other nation has any locus standi to discuss it. Rather of discussing internal affairs of another nation, it would have been suitable if Pakistan’s policy of utilizing cross-border terrorism versus India, which stays the most significant hazard for individuals of Jammu and Kashmir, had actually been called out,” MEA representative Randhir Jaiswal stated.