Maldives, UAE foil Pakistan's bid to form OIC group to target India at UN

NEW DELHI: The Maldives and UAE thwarted a move by Pakistan to create an informal group of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) envoys at the United Nations on Islamophobia, Dawn newspaper reported.
As reported by TOI on May 23, Male told the OIC in the virtual meeting of the envoys that singling out India for Islamophobia would not just be factually incorrect but also detrimental to religious harmony in South Asia. It refused to support any action against India.

UAE also reportedly didn't support Pakistan's move saying only the foreign ministers could form such a group.
The Maldives permanent representative in New York, Thilmeeza Hussain, had said that while her country stood firmly against Islamophobia, xenophobia or any form of violence to promote political or any other agenda, it also believed targeting a specific country will be like side-stepping the real issue.
The top diplomat, who is also the Maldives ambassador to the US, had further said "isolated statements by motivated people and disinformation campaigns" on social media should not be construed as representative of the feelings of 1.3 billion.