The Tribune 24th September 2015
Ahead of Modi visit, US backs India’s UNSC bid
Washington, September 23
With the United States reaffirming its support for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the successful conduct of the maiden strategic and commercial dialogue between the two nations, the stage is set for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third summit with President Barack Obama on September 28.
The US also supported India's entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) that would enable it to share sensitive missile technologies like armed drone with New Delhi.
Notwithstanding apprehensions appearing in certain quarters following recent developments at the UN headquarters in New York, the US said it supported India as a permanent member of the UNSC.
“The US side reaffirmed its support for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a permanent member,” said the joint statement issued after the conclusion of the first US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John Kerry co-chaired the successful dialogue. — Agencies
Comments by Simranjit Singh Mann: Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) states that the late Mrs. Roosevelt wife of President Roosevelt was the great person who brought in the human rights principles in the UN Charter. Now US backs THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State)’s UN SC did, which is unfortunate and sit back to Mr. Obama’s words to Pope Francis assuring him that freedom and human rights would always remain in the forefront of America’s internal and Foreign Policy. America knows very well that THIS has committed the genocide of the Sikh peoples with impunity and no genocedaire has been arrested and put on trial. Then in 2002 when Prime Minister Narinder Modi was a Chief Minister of Gujarat he had over 2000 Muslim’s massacred in cold blood and their women folk raped and videographer. Again in 2013 Mr. Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat had over 60,000 Sikh farmers dispossessed of their legal landholdings. Mr. Modi is Prime Minister now. He is bringing in the RSS orthodox religious Hindu Agenda into the administration of this country.
THIS has not signed and ratified the following UN treaties, protocols and conventions:
1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
2. 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
3. 1954 Convention relating to Status of Stateless Persons.
4. 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
5. 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
6. 1966 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7. 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. It is because there are still 30,000 Sikh Stateless refugees in Kashmir since 1947.
8. 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
9. 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. If this Convention had been followed, neither the Darbar Sahib, the Golden Temple would not have been reduced to rubble nor the Babri Masjid in 1992.
10. 1984 Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
11. 1984 Safeguard and guaranteeing protection of the Rights of those facing the death penalty.
12. 1995 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
13. 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
14. 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction (the Ottawa Convention on the abolition of landmines).
15. 2001 Rome Statute, by virtue of which the International Criminal Court has been set up at the Hague.
- 2010 The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of Cluster Munitions.
We do not understand how America has signed the 123 Nuclear Agreement with THIS when the Hindu state has not signed the NPT and CTBT? If THIS becomes a member of the UN SC do we believe that it will sign and ratify all the treaties, covenants and protocols of the UN?
We produce the pictures and the names of the genocedairs of the Sikh peoples who have not been arrested or sent up for trial at the International Criminal court at the Hague:
We appeal to the US to carefully study the human rights record of THIS before recommending a seat for it on the High Table.
Simranjit Singh Mann