India accused Islamabad of politicising the forum, rejected old Kashmir references and pressed for a review of obsolete UN mandates
India delivered a sharp rebuke to Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, accusing Islamabad of politicising an international forum and pushing outdated narratives on Jammu and Kashmir even as it co-chaired a discussion on global peace and security.
Speaking at the UNSC Arria-formula meeting on “Bridging the Implementation Gap: Security Council Resolutions and Maintenance of International Peace and Security,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, firmly rejected Pakistan’s remarks and used the occasion to call for a review of obsolete Security Council mandates and mediation frameworks that no longer reflect present-day realities.
The meeting, co-chaired by China and Pakistan, was meant to focus on the implementation of UNSC resolutions and challenges in enforcing them. But India made it clear that Pakistan had once again tried to hijack the platform to peddle its familiar line on Kashmir — a move New Delhi described as both inappropriate and deeply ironic for a country expected to act as a neutral co-chair.
India flags difference between binding security action and outdated mediation frameworks
In his intervention, Ambassador Harish underlined that not all Security Council resolutions carry the same nature or relevance forever. He drew a distinction between resolutions passed under Chapter VII of the UN Charter — which deal with threats to peace, aggression and binding enforcement measures — and those under Chapter VI, which are aimed at peaceful dispute resolution through negotiation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration.
Harish said Chapter VII resolutions are meant to address immediate threats to international peace and their implementation remains critical. But Chapter VI resolutions, he argued, are rooted in specific political contexts and cannot be treated as permanent templates divorced from changing realities on the ground.
Without naming Pakistan directly in that part of his remarks, the message was unmistakable: New Delhi believes Islamabad’s repeated attempts to revive decades-old UN references on Kashmir are detached from political, legal and diplomatic developments that have taken place since then.
Pakistan accused of using UN platform for political point-scoring
India’s sharpest comments came in response to the Pakistani representative’s intervention during the meeting. Ambassador Harish said it was “incredible” that a co-chair of the discussion — expected to act in a balanced and impartial manner — had instead chosen to inject unrelated political issues into the debate.
The remark was a direct swipe at Pakistan’s long-running strategy of invoking old UN resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir while ignoring the fact that the issue has been overtaken by subsequent developments, including bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan and India’s consistent position that the matter is entirely internal.
Reiterating New Delhi’s stand in unambiguous terms, Harish said the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir “always has been, is, and will remain” an integral part of India.
India pushes for review of obsolete UN mandates
India also used the discussion to make a broader institutional point: that the United Nations must stop treating decades-old mandates as untouchable relics if they no longer serve present realities.
Harish pointed to the evolving international approach to the Palestine question as an example of how mediation frameworks change over time depending on political developments. That, he said, made a strong case for reviewing outdated arrangements elsewhere as well rather than assuming earlier interventions remain automatically relevant forever.
Linking the issue to wider UN reform, India argued that if the UN80 initiative is examining General Assembly mandates for efficiency and relevance, then Security Council mandates too should be subjected to periodic scrutiny.
Delivered India’s statement at the Arria formula meeting on “Bridging the implementation gap: UNSC resolutions and Maintenance of International Peace and Security”.
Highlighted the distinct nature of Chapter VI and Chapter VII of the UN charter in their applicability.
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— Parvathaneni Harish (@AmbHarishP) June 23, 2026
India’s message: stop using stale resolutions as political weapons
India’s intervention amounted to more than a rebuttal of Pakistan’s latest remarks. It was also a broader warning against the selective use of old UN resolutions as political tools long after the context that produced them has changed.
For New Delhi, Pakistan’s repeated reliance on decades-old Kashmir formulations while claiming to speak about peace and implementation gaps only underlines what India sees as Islamabad’s double standard: using multilateral platforms not for constructive diplomacy, but to recycle stale propaganda that no longer matches the geopolitical and legal reality.
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