India Raises Objections Over Map Anomalies at UN Consultation
India has written to the UN objecting to anomalies in how Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin appear in a map used during consultations on the 'Correct the Map' resolution.
India has formally written to the United Nations, raising objections to what it describes as anomalies in the depiction of Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in a map that was used during the consultation process for the 'Correct the Map' resolution.
The resolution was passed by the UN General Assembly. The map in question figured in the consultations leading up to that adoption.
New Delhi's communication to the world body centres on the representation of the two territories, which India considers integral parts of its sovereign domain. The objection follows the use of the map during the consultative stage of the resolution's journey through the General Assembly.
The matter has also drawn a response on the broader question of UN cartography. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, observed that there is no such thing as a 'UN map with borders', signalling that the organisation does not maintain an official bordered map of its own.
India's letter to the UN marks its formal protest over the cartographic discrepancies it identified in the material associated with the resolution's consultation process.