External affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday the United Nations rights body has been wrong before amid its decision to approach the Supreme Court challenging the amended citizenship act.

“There are sections of the world outside the media. I engage in governments. I was in Brussels, I had 27 foreign ministers in a room to whom I was talking.Point we make on CAA is that it can’t be anybody’s case that a government and Parliament doesn’t have the right to set terms of citizenship. We have tried to reduce a large number of stateless people we have in this country. Everybody, when they look at citizenship, has a context,” he added.

“Everybody, when they look at citizenship, have a context and has a criterion. Show me a country in the world which says everybody in the world is welcome. Nobody says that,” the Minister said.

Reiterating the BJP-led government’s stand on the CAA, the MEA said they have tried to reduce the number of stateless people through the new legislation. “That should be appreciated.”

He further criticised the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its criticism on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, saying its director had been wrong previously too and one should look at the UN body’s past record on handling the Kashmir issue.

“We have tried to reduce the number of stateless people through this legislation. That should be appreciated,” he said when asked about the CAA at the ET Global Business Summit. “We have done it in a way that we do not create a bigger problem for ourselves.Everybody, when they look at citizenship, have a context and has a criterion. Show me a country in the world which says everybody in the world is welcome. Nobody says that,” the minister said.