Foreign Desk Report
NEW YORK: Diplomats at the United Nations on Wednesday heard directly from Indian Occupied Kashmir’s youth delegate about the grim plight of Kashmiri people living under “brutal” occupation in the disputed state for the last seven decades.
“Succeeding generations of Kashmiri youth and children have suffered at the hands of Indian brutality,” Ali Ziyad, a Kashmiri who is studying in the United States, told representatives of all regions of the world.
The occasion was an informal debate for UN Youth Delegates held in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, which deals with social, cultural and humanitarian matters.
Organized by the European Union delegation, the debate was aimed at giving an opportunity for young people to provide input to the work of the Third Committee. Each speaker was limited to three minutes.
Opening the debate, the General Assembly President, Volkan Bozkir, urged the youth delegates to make their contribution in building a better world.
