New Delhi: The Congress party on Sunday took on the Modi government over the 57-nation grouping of OIC countries adopting a resolution that “supported” Pakistan on Kashmir issue saying that with this the NDA dispensation’s claim that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) inviting India to attend its plenary was a diplomatic success had fallen flat.
“External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj attended the OIC meeting in Abu Dhabi. The NDA-BJP government touted it as a huge diplomatic success for India that it has been invited to attend the plenary... But what happened in Abu Dhabi is extremely disturbing for India,” Congress spokes-person Manish Tewari told the media.
Mr Tewari said that the Congress would like to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ms Swaraj whether this was “the diplomatic achievement”.
The Pakistan Foreign Office had on Saturday said the conference concluded in Abu Dhabi with a resolution that “supported” Pakistan on the Kashmir issue. “In a resolution, the OIC member states reiterated that J&K remains the core dispute between Pakistan and India and its resolution is indispensable for the dream for peace in South Asia,” it claimed.
New Delhi had reacted to the resolution by asse-rting that J&K is an integral part of India and the issue is strictly internal to the country. Ms Swaraj had become the first Indi-an minister to address the OIC meeting when she attended the inaugural plenary of the 46th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of OIC on Friday.
