Pakistan has denounced India’s “malevolent designs” to impede the flow of water guaranteed to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty and called on New Delhi to refrain from stopping, diverting or restricting rivers going downstream.
Deputy permanent representative of Pakistan Ambassador Usman Jadoon while highlighting India’s attempt to weaponize water told a United Nations Security Council meeting that “We will never accept any such moves”. The meeting of the 15-member Council on ‘Protecting Water in Armed Conflict’ was convened by Slovenia, in cooperation with Algeria, Panama, Sierra Leone, and the Global Alliance to Spare Water from Armed Conflicts.
Opening the debate, Slovenia’s State Secretary Melita Gabric emphasized the critical role that protecting water and related infrastructure during armed conflicts plays in safeguarding civilian lives, saying, “protection of civilians and civilian objects under international humanitarian law is non-negotiable.”
