In the latest update, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, T.S. Tirumurti engaged in a Twitter spat with the Dutch Ambassador to the UK and Northern Ireland, Karel van Oosterom over New Delhi’s abstention from casting a vote at the General Assembly against Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.
In a tweet late Thursday, Oosterom said: “You shouldn’t have declined in the GA. Regarding the UN Charter.” To this, Tirumurti answered: “Kindly don’t patronize us, Ambassador. We know what to do.”
The Twitter spat came hours after Tirumurti tended to the Security Council where he emphasized New Delhi’s nonpartisan position and said: “India stays in favor of harmony and subsequently accepts that there will be no triumphant side in this contention and keeping in mind that those affected by this contention will keep on torment, strategy will be an enduring setback.”
Tirumurti said India “has emphatically censured the killing of regular folks in Bucha and upheld the require an autonomous examination”. He likewise said that India invited UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ visits to Moscow and Kiev toward the end of last month for gatherings with the heads of the two fighting nations.
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The agent adulated the UN departure of regular people from the assaulted Ukrainian city of Mariupol and said: “We trust these endeavors will reach out to different regions also.” The most recent abstention from India came on April 7 when the General Assembly casted a vote to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
This was India’s eighth abstention on activities at the UN connected with the Russia-Ukraine war.
In another news, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) has said that it is in conversations with India on the acquisition of wheat as a few nations face food security challenges in the midst of the Ukraine war.
“We are in conversations with India on the acquisition of wheat. Along these lines, that is something which is progressing,” the WFP’s Chief Economist Arif Husain said at a news gathering here on Wednesday.
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He was answering an inquiry on India having a tremendous excess of wheat and whether the association was effectively use this store with India as the Russia-Ukraine war has exacerbated the worldwide food security circumstance. To an alternate inquiry on whether limitations by the World Trade Organization over the amount India can commodity ought to be suspended in the midst of the ongoing crisis, Mr. Husain expressed one of their proposals is about exception of the WFP from send out boycotts.
He noticed that two or three weeks prior, a few offices of the UN had urged legislatures not to force send out boycotts, which then, at that point, misleadingly expanded the cost or decreased the accessibility of significant staple wares. “So this is the kind of thing which is an exceptionally huge suggestion and ideally, nations are tuning in,” he said.
India’s wheat production remained at 109.59 million tons in the 2020-21 yield year (July-June).
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