MUZAFFARABAD - Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday that organisation of a G20 session in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by India was in violation of global laws and the UN resolutions. Talking to the media after landing in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on a three-day visit, FM Bilawal said: “It is not possible for India to play an important role in the world by violating UN resolutions.”
On reaching Azad Kashmir, the foreign minister was welcomed by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) AJK lawmakers upon his arrival in Muzaffarabad. “At a time when India is holding a conference in occupied Kashmir, I have been invited to deliver an address to the AJK Assembly,” the minister said.
Bilawal stated that he would also attend a protest rally in the Bagh district to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people. “I believe that when a country takes a step like that India has taken, their real face comes forth in front of the world,” he added. Bilawal said India would not be able to “suppress the voices of the people of occupied Kashmir” by holding the G20 moot in the disputed region. The third meeting of the G20 Tourism Working Group under India’s presidency will be held from May 22 to 24 in Srinagar, according to Indian media. India assumed the year-long presidency of the G20 in December last year. It is set to host a leaders’ summit in New Delhi in early September. Pakistan has expressed strong indignation at New Delhi’s decision to hold the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting in occupied Kashmir and called it a “self-serving move”.
