Turkey’s big betrayal to India! Erdogan raises Kashmir AGAIN at UNGA days after meeting Modi at G20
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New York, Sept 21: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue of Kashmir during his address to world leaders at the high-level 78th session of the UN General Assembly session at the United Nations. This comes days after he met PM Narendra Modi at the G20 Summit in Delhi.
"Another development that will pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia will be the establishment of a just and lasting peace in Kashmir through dialogue and cooperation between India and Pakistan," Erdogan said in his address to the General Debate on Tuesday.
"As Turkiye, we will continue to support the steps to be taken in this direction," he said.
His comment comes weeks after he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi during which both the leaders discussed strengthening trade and infrastructure relations.
However, Erdogan said it was a matter of pride that India was playing a role at the United Nations Security Council. He said he favoured making five permanent and 15 "temporary" members as permanent members of the UN Security Council.
"Those 20 (5+15) should be permanent members of the UNSC in rotation. But as you know, the world is bigger than five. When we say the world is larger than five, what we mean is that it's not only about the US, UK, France, China and Russia," he said.
In recent years, the Turkish leader has time and again raised issue of Kashmir in his address to world leaders at the high-level UN General Assembly session. Last year, Erdogan raked up the issue of Kashmir during his address to world leaders at the high-level UN General Assembly session here.
“India and Pakistan, after having established their sovereignty and independence 75 years ago, they still haven't established peace and solidarity between one another. This is much unfortunate. We hope and pray that a fair and permanent peace and prosperity will be established in Kashmir,” Erdogan had said.
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In 2020, Erdogan in his pre-recorded video statement to the General Debate had made a reference to Jammu and Kashmir.
India had at that time termed it as “completely unacceptable”, saying Turkey should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its own policies more deeply.
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