The United Nations has said that its stance on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute has not changed and it is committed to its numerous resolutions, despite India’s Illegal abrogation of article 370 in August 2019.
In a press conference, United Nations Secretary-General Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the UN’s position on the 73 years old dispute had not changed. “Our position on Kashmir is well established and has not changed. I will leave it at that,” Dujarric said.
The UNSG spokesperson said, “You will find it in relevant resolutions. I’m not going to go and repeat it, but ours is unchanged.”
This statement comes two days after India assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council.
Speaking to a press conference, India’s Ambassador to UN T. S. Tirumurti said that Jammu and Kashmir was “an integral part of India.” He reiterated the Indian illegal position with regards to New Delhi’s rejection of the UN Security Council resolutions that provide a right to self-determination for the Kashmiri people.
In response to New Delhi’s illegitimate claims, Pakistan’s Ambassador to UN Akram Munir issues a rejoinder rejecting Ambassador Tirumurti’s baseless claims.
Munir said that Jammu and Kashmir is an UN-recognized disputed territory and not an integral part of India. He said that Security Council resolutions calling for a Plebiscite remain in force and can be abrogated only by the Security Council itself. The Ambassador added that India’s unilateral and illegal actions of August 5, 2019, violate Security Council resolutions No. 91 and No. 122 and are thus null and void.
Munir said that a dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi will only be productive once India reverses all unilateral and illegal measures imposed on and after August 5, 2019, rescinds the demographic changes initiated in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and halts its reign of oppression and human rights violations in IIOJK.
