Pakistan snubbed! UN rejects demand to remove Priyanka Chopea as brand ambassador

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Pakistan snubbed! UN rejects demand to remove Priyanka Chopea as brand ambassador
Pakistan snubbed! UN rejects demand to remove Priyanka Chopea as brand ambassador

United Nation : UNICEF goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra has been reeling under severe criticism for her Jai Hind tweet after India’s retaliatory attack on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. Rejecting Pakistan's demand to remove her as the ambassador, UN spokesperson claimed that she owns rights to speak in her own capacity.

When UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors “speak in their personal capacity, they retain the right to speak about issues that interest or concern them,” Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said at his daily briefing on Thursday in answer to a question about Priyanka.

“Their personal views or actions do not necessarily reflect those of UNICEF,” he said, adding, “When they speak on behalf of the UNICEF, we expect them to adhere to UNICEF’s evidence-based impartial positions.” About their role, he said: “The UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors are prominent individuals who have agreed to generously volunteer their time and their public profile to promote children’s rights.”

Several people started petitioning against her post of goodwill ambassador, and soon after the scrapping of Article 370, Pakistan also focused on the issue and raised the demands on the similar tunes.

Pakistan’s human rights minister Shireen Mazari wrote this week to UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore demanding Chopra’s removal as a Goodwill Ambassador accusing her of “jingoism and support” for the Indian armed forces.

Mazari alleged that Chopra showed “support for war, including a nuclear war,” even though the actress and 2000 Miss World has not said anything beyond the tweet made in the aftermath of the carbomb attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed that killed more than 40 Central Reserve Police personnel and the Indian Air Force counterstrike on the organisation’s base in Pakistan.