UNITED NATIONS, October 9: Pakistan has called on the international community to take “concrete and meaningful” action to alleviate the suffering of Kashmiri people under Indian occupation people, while stressing the need for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
“As a party to the Kashmir dispute, this is the UN’s long-standing obligation,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the UN General Assembly on Monday.
Speaking in the debate on the Report of the Secretary General on the work of the Organization, she said the Jammu and Kashmir dispute
remains one of the oldest items on the Security Council agenda, noting that relevant, yet unimplemented resolutions grant Kashmiris the right to self-determination. “Regrettably”, she added, “these resolutions remain unimplemented.” Pakistan seeks a negotiated solution to the dispute, Ambassador Lodhi said, pointing out that India does not. Welcoming the establishment of the Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation, the Pakistani envoy reminded the 193-member Assembly that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute was one of the earliest applications of Chapter VI of the United Nations, which deals with pacific settlements of disputes. – Agencies
