Question 23088 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr Jean-Christophe Lagarde draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the extremely worrying situation in Jammu and Kashmir, a state in northern India with a Muslim majority. Indeed, the Indian government, by a presidential decree dated August 5, 2019, repealed Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which conferred constitutional autonomy on the State of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Article 35-A which prohibited non-Kashmir Indians from owning land and real estate there. Jammu and Kashmir thus loses its status as a federated state to become a “Union Territory” and its Buddhist part, Ladakh, will be split. However, since its annexation to India, Jammu and Kashmir had, with the exception of the areas of defence, foreign affairs and communications, a large degree of autonomy. in the management of its affairs. With these abrogations, the Indian regime ensures its complete domination over the region. Obviously, this unilateral and autocratic decision risks igniting and further destabilizing this region, which is already one of the most disputed and militarized in the world. Moreover, aware of the risks that such a decision would generate, New Delhi has decreed a general curfew and blocked all telecommunications and arrested local politicians and activists a few days earlier. Also, he asks him if France condemns this unilateral act and asks him to specify the actions that the French State intends to undertake to ensure that ethnic and religious minorities are protected and that human rights are respected.

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