In response to a question on how India plans to counter Islamabad's Kashmir rant, Syed said, "It is for every country to determine its trajectory how it wants to approach global issues. There may be some who stoop low, response to them is we soar high."
Ahead of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level meeting next week, India's envoy to United Nation Syed Akbaruddin slammed Pakistan who plans to use the world stage to rake up Kashmir.
In response to a question on how India plans to counter Islamabad's Kashmir rant, Syed said, "It is for every country to determine its trajectory how it wants to approach global issues. There may be some who stoop low, response to them is we soar high."
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Explaining, "We have seen them, mainstream terrorism in the past in the past and they may now want to mainstream hate speech. It's there call."
Syed Akbaruddin, India's Permanent Representative to UN: It’s their call, if they want to do that. Poison pens don’t work for too long. We are confident that we will soar. We have given you examples of how we will not stoop. We will soar when they stoop low.
— ANI (@ANI) September 19, 2019
Adding, "poison pens don't work for too long. We are confident that we will soar. We will soar when they stoop low."
Syed Akbaruddin: There may be some who stoop low.Our response to them is we soar high.They may stoop low, we soar high. What they want to do is their call. We’ve seen them mainstream terrorism in the past. And what you’re now telling me is they may want to mainstream hate speech. https://t.co/md4XACVznb
— ANI (@ANI) September 19, 2019
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear that he will be using his UNGA speech to raise Kashmir, which the Pakistani leadership has been doing for the last 70 years.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23.
1. 'Expect concrete tangible action-oriented visible outcomes': Akbaruddin on India at UN
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Meanwhile talking about India's engagement at UNGA, Akbaruddin said, "extend of outreach is unprecedented this time" and "expect concrete tangible action-oriented visible outcomes"
During Prime Ministers' upcoming US visit, Modi along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Minister of State in MEA V Muraleedharan will be reaching out in substantive meetings to 75 plus countries at heads of state/ foreign ministers for at least 30 minutes or more.
PM will be speaking at 10 events that will be broadcast live including — Howdy Modi in Houston, UN Climate Action summit, UN High-level meeting on universal health coverage, Leaders dialogue on strategic responses to terrorist, 3rd India Pacific Island Summit, 150 Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi event, 3rd annual goalkeeper's event, Bloomberg global business forum, 1st India Caribbean summit and UNGA Address in New York.
2. 'Poisoned pens don't work for too long': Syed Akbaruddin slams Pak
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'Poisoned pens don't work for too long. We are confident that we will soar. We have given you examples of how we will not stoop (low)," Syed Akbaruddin said while mocking Pakistan.
On being about using Right of Reply after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech in the upcoming UNGA session, the Indian diplomat quipped, "It is a bad tactic to tell everybody what tactical approach you will apply. You will appreciate, you may call me anything, I am not a bad tactician."
3. India's focus is to engage with countries with regards to climate action: Akbaruddin
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Akbaruddin said that India's focus has been to engage with developing countries with regards to climate action.
"While our focus is on engaging the developing countries, we are sui-generis as a country as we are able to engage at the level of developing countries, also engage with many developed countries as partners. And one way which we have done is to have coalitions which are broad-based and which cut across as developing and developed the world," he said.
"The coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure is a coalition which is in the making, which will bring about some of the G-20 countries, some of the developing countries which are not in the G-20 but who perhaps are exposed to the vagaries of the nature and their infrastructure gets destroyed very quickly when there are these huge catastrophic climatic events," said Akbaruddin while speaking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's participation in UN Climate Action Summit on September 23.
The senior diplomat said that their effort is to see if "we can bring together this coalition because climate action also requires us to build better and also build best at the beginning so that we don't have to build better when there is a crisis."
On being asked if there will be an announcement during that time (UN Climate Action Summit), he said, "I can't steal the thunder of announcements. You are aware of the multi-faceted activities we are undertaking on the ground on climate-related issues."
