India didn’t sign a letter supported by 104 countries and the African Union, which criticized Israel for declaring United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel for allegedly siding with Iran and Hamas.
The WIRE Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Guterres had been declared persona non grata and barred from entering Israeli territory because he did not “unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack” and did not “denounce the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7.” “Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as nearly all the countries of the world have done, does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said at the time.
At a meeting of the UN Security Council, Guterres pointed out that he had always strongly condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel. After UNSC members expressed their support for Guterres, the secretary general’s spokesperson said that they saw the announcement as a “political statement by the Foreign Minister”.
The South American state of Chile led an initiative to gather signatures from UN member states for a letter in support of Guterres. “We, the member states signatories to this letter, express our deep concern with and condemnation of the recent statement from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel declaring the Secretary-General persona non grata. Such actions undermine the United Nations’ ability to carry out its mandate, which includes mediating conflicts and providing humanitarian support,” the letter stated.
While the United States and several European nations did not sign the letter, India’s absence was particularly notable – as it had always accorded significant importance to the United Nations.
Breitbart The Indian government has been much more unequivocal in condemning Hamas and radical Islamic terrorism since the attack, lending clear support to Israel. “People of India stand firmly with Israel in this difficult hour,” Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement shortly after the attack. “India strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.”
RP Singh, a spokesman for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), issued a statement following the attack saying Hamas “has hijacked the Gaza strip and is worse than ISIS. They started it so we can’t say people from both sides have been killed.”
It is not a war between two countries,” Singh declared. “The way it has happened and done on the ground, children are killed and put in cages, and hostages have been taken up. Who has died, and who are the sufferers? Israelis.”
“The Indians always remind us that Israel was there for them during the Kargil War,” Carmon told YNet. “Israel was one of the few countries that stood by them and provided them with weapons. The Indians don’t forget this and might now be returning the favor.”
India’s lack of support for jihad prompted Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to declare India an “enemy of Islam” in a statement in September.
The Hindu observed that some of India’s closest allies, including BRICS partners China and Russia, signed the letter, as well as European states including France and Switzerland. On the list of those abstaining from participating in the letter were America, Israel’s top ally, as well as Japan and South Korea.
EU member signatories in RED:
1. Algeria
2. Andorra
3. Angola
4. Antigua and Barbuda
5. Bahamas
6. Bahrain
7. Barbados
8. Belgium
9. Belize
10. Bolivia
11. Bosnia and Herzegovina
12. Botswana
13. Brazil
14. Burundi
15. Cabo Verde
16. Cambodia
17. Chile
18. China
19. Colombia
20. Costa Rica
21. Cuba
22. Cyprus
23. Denmark
24. Djibouti
25. Dominican Republic
26. Ecuador
27. Egypt
28. Finland
29. France
30. Gambia
31. Greece
32. Grenada
33. Guatemala
34. Guyana
35. Haiti
36. Honduras
37. Iceland
38. Indonesia
39. Islamic Republic of lran
40. Iraq
41. Ireland
42. Jamaica
43. Jordan
44. Kazakhstan
45. Kenya
46. Kuwait
47. Kyrgyzstan
48. Latvia
49. Lebanon
50. Lesotho
51. Liberia
52. Libya
53. Liechtenstein
54. Luxembourg
55. Madagascar
56. Malaysia
57. Maldives
58. Malta
59. Mauritius
60. Mexico
61. Mongolia
62. Montenegro
63. Morocco
64. Mozambique
65. Namibia
66. Nepal
67. Kingdom of the Netherlands
68. North Macedonia
69. Norway
70. Oman
71. Pakistan
72. Palestine
73. Philippines
74. Portugal
75. Qatar
76. Russian Federation
77. Independent State of Samoa
78. San Marino
79. Saudi Arabia
80. Senegal
81. Slovakia
82. Slovenia
83. Somalia
84. South Africa
85. Spain
86. St Kitts and Nevis
87. St. Lucia
88. St. Vincent and the Grenadines
89. Suriname
90. Sweden
91. Switzerland
92. The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
93. Tanzania
94. Tajikistan
95. Timor Leste
96. Trinidad and Tobago
97. Republic of Tunisia
98. Türkiye
99. Turkmenistan
100. United Arab Emirates\
101. Uzbekistan
102. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
103. Yemen
104. Zimbabwe
105. African Union
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