New Delhi, March 5 -- India has rejected UN human rights chief Volker Turk's remarks on the situation in Jammu & Kashmir, and called for a better understanding of the country's diversity and openness instead of the "cherry-picking of situations".
India's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Arindam Bagchi, delivered the response to Turk's comments at an ongoing debate on global human rights at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. "...Unfounded and baseless comments in the [UN human rights chief's] update contrast jarringly with ground realities," Bagchi said in a statement on Monday. P8
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