UNSC membership a huge responsibility, not a forum for pedantic, biased, fake stories: India slams Pakistan
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish addresses the UN Security Council meeting on June 5, 2026. Photo: X/@IndiaUNNewYork
Criticizing Pakistan for its “unwarranted mention” of Jammu and Kashmir at the UN, India told the current non-permanent member of the global body that it was a huge responsibility and not a forum to spread “prejudiced and false narratives”.
“Pakistan’s unwarranted references to a matter strictly internal to India, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, have prompted me to react,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said on Friday (June 5, 2026).
Mr. Harish’s strong response came after Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in his remarks to the UN General Assembly on Friday (June 5, 2026) on the “Annual Report of the Security Council”.
Pakistan, which has been constantly raising the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and other internal issues of India at various UN platforms, currently sits on the Security Council as a non-permanent member and its term will end this year.
Mr. Harish said in the UN General Assembly Hall that Pakistan has decided not to spare this forum for their typical misuse of lofty UN platforms for their divisive political interests.
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“Pakistan’s misuse of its presence in the Security Council, including by spreading several misinformed and misleading messages, is also indicative of this counterproductive approach. I would like to remind Pakistan that being a member of the UN Security Council is a huge responsibility. It is not a forum for spreading biased and false narratives,” Harish said.
Harish made it clear that Jammu and Kashmir was, is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India and stressed that any claims to the contrary are baseless, devoid of historical facts and contradict them.
“Pakistan’s empty rhetoric and hollow claims would not change this fundamental reality. In the interests of the time of the wider UN membership, I would not dwell on it further,” he said.
The Indian envoy also pointed out that the international community recognizes the importance of reforming the Security Council to make it fit to address the current and future challenges we face.
“The current structure reflects the geopolitical reality of 1945. Maintaining the status quo has not yet allowed the Security Council to function effectively and cannot do so in the future,” he said.
He noted that the “marginal” reform in the 1960s, which only expanded the non-permanent category, did not fundamentally change the basic way the Security Council operated.
“The expansion of both permanent and non-permanent categories is essential to the implementation of real and meaningful reform,” he said.
The G4 nations, India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, have proposed that the number of members in the Security Council should be increased from the current 15 to 25 or 26, with a reformed Council consisting of 11 permanent members and 14 or 15 non-permanent members.
Currently, the powerful UN body consists of five permanent members with veto power — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The remaining 10 members are elected to sit at the horseshoe table for two-year terms as non-permanent members. India last sat in the Council as a non-permanent member in 2021–22.
Published – June 6, 2026 08:59 IST