West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded that UN peacekeepers be sent to Bangladesh. In this regard, Indian Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor said, I am not sure whether she (Mamata) fully understands the role of UN peacekeepers.
Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor made this comment in a statement given to Indian news agency PTI on Tuesday (December 3).
He said that UN peacekeepers are sent to a country in very few cases, it happens when the government of a country itself requests it.
He also said, I am not sure whether she (Mamata) fully understands the role of UN peacekeepers. I have worked in UN peacekeeping for many years. I can say that UN peacekeepers are sent to that country in very few cases without the request of a country.
He also said that peacekeepers are sent only when a country is completely collapsed. That too, the government of that country must be requested. However, I completely agree that what is happening there (Bangladesh) must be kept under review.
On the arrest of Bangladesh Sammilit Sanatanijagaran Mancha leader Chinmoy Krishna Das, Shashi Tharoor said on Friday that it would not be right for India to talk much about this issue, as the matter is not related to India.
The Indian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs has called a meeting on December 11 on the current situation in Bangladesh. The current head of this committee is Shashi Tharoor.