Russia Supports Pakistan’s Stance over Political Map: Dr. Moeed Yusuf
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ISLAMABAD, Sep 16 (APP): Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security and Strategic Policy Planning, Dr. Moeed Yusuf Wednesday said Russia has supported Pakistan’s stance regarding its political map which is according to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and international laws.
Talking to the media here, Dr. Yusuf said the yesterday’s virtual meeting of the National Security Advisers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has rejected India’s objections over display of Pakistan’s political map in the meeting room.
“Pakistan proudly displayed the political map at the SCO meeting while the Indian objections were rejected by the member countries and even Russia sided with Pakistan on the issue”, he said.
Elaborating the details, Dr. Yusuf said that Russia which was the host country requested all the technical groups of the participating countries to test their technologies three days ago.
He said that during the technology test on September 11, India raised an objection over the display of Pakistan’s map on the wall in its meeting room and submitted a formal complaint to Russia registering its strong protest against declaring Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as part of Pakistan in map.
He continued that the Russian friends conveyed to Pakistan last night that India wanted that map not to be displayed during the virtual session. Responding to that complaint, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan in its response to Russia clearly stated that the map which was launched on August 5, ‘Youm-Istehsal’ reflects our legal right and is according to the United Nations Security Council resolutions and removing it from anywhere is unquestionable.
He said Pakistan has clearly stated that Kashmir is neither a part of India nor would it ever be. Pakistan’s map truly reflects the United Nations resolution and the aspirations of the Kashmiris masses. “We have reminded SCO members that India is violating the UN charter by trying to illegally change the status of IIOJK”.
During the SCO meeting, Indian National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval walkout from the meeting in protest against the display of Pakistan’s map when his speech started and even didn’t attend the speech of Russian representative, he said. Criticising this act, Dr. Yusuf said that SCO was not the right platform to raise objections over the map as it deals with multilateral issues not bilateral. It is a forum of cooperation and engagement.
Dr. Yusuf said he has focused on four points during his speech in the SCO forum meeting. Firstly, Pakistan being an important member stands with SCO which urges all the countries to follow United Nations norms and principles. Secondly, it is the responsibility of international community to exert pressure on those countries which are not accepting United Nations resolutions and not following international laws to resolve the disputes. Thirdly, Dr. Yusuf highlighted that there is hardly any country that has fought like Pakistan against terrorism and now the whole world recognises its efforts and needs to learn from its experiences. Fourthly, he said Intra Afghan dialogue was not possible without Pakistan’s role. Now the dialogue has started and Pakistan will play the role of facilitator.
However if we say that any other country can guarantee the peace in Afghanistan It will be wrong and Pakistan cannot be blamed if God forbids there are any hiccups in that process of dialogue, he said.
The world talks of strategic competition and confrontation like what our neighbouring country (India) is doing but what Pakistan talks about is regional connectivity and economic security. Pakistan is a responsible state and it does not want any conflict in the region and its focus is on economic diplomacy through boosting regional connectivity.
Dr. Yusuf said Pakistan wants to provide corridors to Russia, Central Asia and China and want to use Gwadar port. “We want peace in Afghanistan so that we can have access to Central Asia”.
Pakistan’s focus is China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and having access to Central Asia leading to economic security which is our paramount objective. Pakistan is the hub where economic interests of the world meet not proxy wars, he said.
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