NEW DELHI – Indian Foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar reacts over USSenators snub on Occupied Kashmir lockdown.
Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed USSenator Lindsey Graham’s appeal to New Delhi to settle the Kashmir disputedemocratically, reported the Indian channel *NDTV*.
The Republican Senator in a panel discussion on “Westlessness in the World:Multilateralism in a Changing International Order” had brought up theKashmir dispute at the Munich Security Conference.
He had said that for India the best way to sell democracy would be that itsettles the Kashmir dispute democratically.
“In India, you are moving forward. You got your problems like we do athome, but you have chosen the democratic path. When it comes to Kashmir, Idon’t know how it ends but let’s make sure that two democracies will end itdifferently. If you can prove that concept here, then I think that’sprobably the best way to sell democracy,” the Republican leader was quotedby *NDTV*.
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“Do not worry, Senator. One democracy will settle it and you know whichone,” the Indian minister responded to the US senator’s plea.
Graham was one of the four senators who had written a letterlinkUS President Donald Trump asking him to intervene and help ease theon-going clampdown in occupied Kashmir by the Indian armed forces.
In the letter the senators had expressed their concern regarding thesituation in occupied Kashmir, and pressed Trump to ask Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi to lift the lockdown and curfew and release thehundreds of innocent Kashmiris detained under the controversial PublicSafety Act.
