Statement by India under Agenda Item 4: General debate ‘Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention’ at the 60th Session of the Human Rights Council (8 September- 8 October 2025) delivered by Mr. Kshitij Tyagi, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, 23 September 2025
Mr. Vice President,
India reaffirms that the Council must remain universal, objective, and non-selective in its approach. Our collective efforts should foster unity and constructive engagement, not division.
- We are concerned by the continued proliferation of country-specific mandates. Far from advancing the Council’s core mandate, they reinforce perceptions of bias and selectivity. Focusing narrowly on the human rights situation in a few countries distracts us from the urgent and shared challenges the world faces.
- We firmly believe that lasting progress can only be achieved through dialogue, cooperation, and capacity-building—always with the consent of the State concerned. At a time when the world is struggling with multiple crises, the Council’s work should be channelised into forging consensus through a non-politicized and forward-looking approach.
Mr. Vice President,
- A delegation that epitomises the antithesis of this approach continues to abuse this forum with baseless and provocative statements against India. Instead of coveting our territory, they would do well to vacate the Indian territory under their illegal occupation and focus on rescuing an economy on life support, a polity muzzled by military dominance, and a human rights record stained by persecution, perhaps once they find time away from exporting terrorism, harbouring UN-proscribed terrorists, and bombing their own people.
I Thank you
