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Published 18:06 IST, August 25th 2020

UN Under Secretary General Mr. Adaams Dieng, who 'defamed' Swamy terminated by UNSG

The senior leader thanked Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and UN Representative Trimurti for their support in assuring action was taken against the officer

Reported by: Ananya Varma
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Months after UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser Adama Dieng misattributed quotes to senior BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, passing-off discriminatory remarks during the CAA debate under his name, Swamy took to Twitter to announce that the officer had finally been terminated from the UN post. The senior leader also thanked Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and UN Representative Trimurti for their support in assuring action was taken against the officer at an international level. 

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Swamy's row with top UN Officer

On May 19, Dr Swamy said that Under-Secretary-General Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, had falsely attributed statements to him and he will sue him. "He has slandered me in a press release in New York saying I had said in an interview to a Pakistani owned TV channel that Muslims are not equal to Hindus in Indian Constitution. This is a blatant lie so I will take steps to sue him in court."

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Swamy also wrote a letter to the Foreign Secretary, and expressed his intention to prosecute Dieng for defamation and for relying on a Pakistani owned TV's 'cut and paste interview'. Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, in a note to the media, had expressed concern over reports of "increased hate speech and discrimination" against minority communities in India since the adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019. In his letter, Dieng made a reference to Dr Swamy, alleging a statement pertaining to religious discrimination that the Rajya Sabha MP had never said in the presented context.

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18:05 IST, August 25th 2020