His position requires him not to sound like a partisan Turkish politician but act independently. IANS Photo
Volkan Bozkir is a former minister from Turkey who under a rotational system occupies the high chair of the president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for the current year. His position requires him not to sound like a partisan Turkish politician but act independently.
On a visit to Pakistan, he endorsed the contentious Pakistani view on Kashmir, urging it to raise the Kashmir issue ‘more strongly’ at UN platforms. He also linked the Kashmir and Palestine issues. He had nothing to say about Pakistan’s illegal occupation of a part of Jammu and Kashmir, its attempts at incorporating Gilgit Baltistan as a Pakistani province, and the plight of Turkish origin Muslims in China.