Dikhyaa Mohanty 
India has accused Pakistan of promoting a culture of violence and using the high-level UN meeting on the culture of peace for hate speech as informed by Vidisha Maitra, a First Secretary at India’s UN mission to the General Assembly.
According to the reports, Vidisha Maitra said- “We have witnessed yet another attempt today by the delegation of Pakistan to exploit a UN platform for hate speech against India, even as it continues to foment a ‘culture of violence at home and across its borders.”
Further, she said that they dismiss and condemn all such efforts, in her address to the high-level forum on culture of peace while making a passive reference to Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Munir Akram’s remarks. Akram devoted six paragraphs of his nine-paragraph speech to India and the RSS and asked the General Assembly to “confront Hindutva”.
She further added “India reiterates its call for the application of the principles of objectivity, non-selectivity and impartiality to form the basis of discussions in the United Nations especially on the issue of religion. India is called a country of ‘unity in diversity.’ Our concept of pluralism is based on our ancient ethos of ‘Sarva Dharma Sambhav’ which means ‘equal respect for all faiths.”
