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EU Parliament set to vote on Kashmir, citizenship Act
Why is it in news?
- The EU Parliament is very likely to take up resolution against CAA and Kashmir issue during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels.
More in news
- Visit of MEPs: In October 2019 the government had even facilitated a visit by 22 EU MEPs to Delhi and Srinagar, but the effort doesn’t appear to have had the desired effect on the European Parliament.
- More about the resolutions
(1) The current resolutions, each of which is worded slightly differently and focuses mainly on the CAA, will be introduced by six different political groups representing a total of 626 of the total 751 members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
(2) The resolutions list more than a dozen different counts of actions by the government that are allegedly in violation of international norms and India’s international commitments on Human Rights and at the UN Security Council.
- India’s stand: India has reiterated that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan while the Citizenship Amendment Act is completely an internal matter of India.
Source
The Hindu