UNSC likely to hold session on occupied Kashmir on Friday: Radio Pakistan

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The United Nations Security Council will is expected to hold a session to discuss the occupied Kashmir dispute on Friday, Radio Pakistan reported, as China also backed Pakistan's request.

Pakistan drew the attention of the UNSC presidency to the grave threat to peace and security in South Asia after India annexed occupied Kashmir and called for summoning an emergency meeting of the council to discuss the rapidly aggravating situation.

Quoting diplomatic sources, Radio Pakistan on Thursday reported that the Kashmir dispute would be discussed tomorrow under the agenda item 'Pakistan-India question'.

The same was confirmed in a report by Geo News, which quoted UNSC president Joanna Wronecka as saying: "The UNSC will discuss the Jammu and Kashmir situation behind closed doors most likely on August 16."

The UNSC president, in response to a question, was quoted as saying that the session will "most probably" be on Friday as the UNSC would not operate on Thursday.

Read: Pakistan seeks emergency UNSC meet on Kashmir

The development comes a day after China also backed Pakistan's request for the international body to discuss India's move and asked the UNSC on Wednesday to meet behind closed doors, diplomats said.

However, France responded to the request by proposing that the council discuss the issue in a less formal manner — known as "any other business" — next week, diplomats said. Reuters reported that it would be up to Poland, president of the council for August, to mediate an agreed time and format among the 15 members.

Radio Pakistan reported that the last time occupied Kashmir found a reference in the UNSC was the UN Security Council Resolution 1172 in 1998 after Pakistan had conducted nuclear tests.

In a statement issued on Tuesday night, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he had written a letter to the UNSC president, asking the latter to convene an emergency meeting of the council to discuss India’s "illegal actions" that also "violate UN resolutions on Kashmir".

Read: PM questions world's silence on IoK, warns of severe repercussions in case of ethnic cleansing of Muslims

Meanwhile, August 15, which is also India's Independence Day, is being observed as a black day across Pakistan to protest the brutalities and human rights abuses in occupied Kashmir.



In a post shared on Twitter, Prime Minister Imran Khan once again questioned the international community's silence on Indian-occupied Kashmir and warned that should ethnic cleansing of Muslims take place in the region, there would be severe repercussions in the Muslim world.
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[Patriots]

–UNSC to hold special session ‘behind closed doors’ despite proposition from France to act otherwise

–‘Landmark achievement’ as Kashmir session will be held after 50 years, says FM Qureshi

NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a session to discuss the situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.

China on Wednesday backed Pakistan’s request for the UNSC to discuss India’s decision to revoke the special status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, asking for the body to meet “behind closed doors” on Friday, diplomats said.

In its response, France proposed that the council discuss the issue in a less formal manner – known as “any other business” – next week, diplomats said. It will be up to Poland, president of the council for August, to mediate an agreed time and format among the 15 members.

However, UNSC President Joanna Wronecka told reporters on Wednesday that “the UNSC will discuss the Jammu and Kashmir situation behind closed doors most likely on August 16”.

This development came after China formally asked for “closed consultations” in the security council to discuss Kashmir dispute which has long been a flashpoint in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserted that the discussion on Kashmir in the UNSC after four decades “is a landmark diplomatic achievement”.

While talking to media, he said the issue was last discussed at the UN body in 1971. After that there was a cursory mention of Kashmir in 1998 when Pakistan conducted nuclear tests.

Qureshi stressed the world needs to realise that it was the matter of humanity and not a piece of land between the two countries. He further said India has put a complete clampdown on movement of Kashmiris with reports of food and medicine shortages in the held territory.

The August 5 decision by India blocks the right of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to frame its own laws and allows non-residents to buy property there. Telephone lines, internet, and television networks have been blocked and there are restrictions on movement and assembly.

Earlier, Pakistan drew the attention of the UNSC presidency to the grave threat to peace and security in the region after India annexed occupied Kashmir and called for summoning an emergency meeting of the council to discuss the rapidly aggravating situation.

“Pakistan will not provoke a conflict. But India should not mistake our restraint for weakness,” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote in a letter to the Security Council on Tuesday. “If India chooses to resort again to the use of force, Pakistan will be obliged to respond, in self-defense, with all its capabilities.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on India and Pakistan to refrain from any steps that could affect the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Guterres also said he was concerned about reports of restrictions on the Indian side of Kashmir.

The UN Security Council adopted several resolutions in 1948 and in the 1950s on the dispute between India and Pakistan over the region, including one which says a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of the mostly Muslim Kashmir.

Another resolution also calls upon both sides to “refrain from making any statements and from doing or causing to be done or permitting any acts which might aggravate the situation.”

UN peacekeepers have been deployed since 1949 to observe a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.

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[YeBeWarned]

Friday is a Mubarak day for us Muslims, may Allah help the people of Kashmir to ease their troubles, and they will come out as victors .

 

[Patriots]

Off course it is a great victory ........

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[IbnAbdullah]

Salaam

So anyone know what's thw significance of behind closed door and why was France insisting upon using less formal settings?

 

[Norwegian]

why was France insisting upon using less formal settings?

France-India economic ties.

 

[IceCold]

Salaam

So anyone know what's thw significance of behind closed door and why was France insisting upon using less formal settings?

France is the only country that will most probably veto it. They have a multi billion dollar contract with the Indians for Rafales, they wont jeopardize it because of Kashmir. Remember France and US Def sec Bolton were the only two countries who were actually endorsing India's right to so called self defense after Pulwama.

 

[Norwegian]

Kashmir returning to UNSC raises several legal questions
Kallol Bhattacherjee
NEW DELHI: , AUGUST 15, 2019 14:30 IST
UPDATED: AUGUST 15, 2019 14:47 IST
The Security Council discussed the issue decades ago in 1971
In view of China’s letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the Kashmir issue, experts and veteran diplomats are indicating that irrespective of the outcome, the discussion is a diplomatic landmark as the last time the most important U.N. organ discussed Kashmir was decades ago in 1971.

“Last of the Kashmir related resolutions came up in 1971 during the Bangladesh war which led to the Simla agreement. Following that, the issue was more or less kept away from international platforms,” said K. Natwar Singh, former External Affairs Minister.

UNSC Resolution 307 had taken up the Kashmir issue in the backdrop of the war of 1971 while demanding ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

A former diplomat who represented India at the U.N. pointed out the closed discussion will have to first address whether the current letter from China is suitable to be discussed under “India-Pakistan Questions”, a title which was used to discuss Kashmir since 1947-’48 till 1971. After the Simla Agreement of 1972, India had informed the U.N. about the treaty which had turned Kashmir into a bilateral subject.

“Therefore, the UNSC first of all has to discuss if the members have the legal space to deal with the subject at all under the “India-Pakistan Questions” as mentioned in the Chinese letter as U.N. was duly informed that India and Pakistan had termed Kashmir as a bilateral issue through a treaty,” the veteran diplomat said.

India has maintained that the August 5 decision to end the Special Status for Kashmir is a strictly bilateral affair which is not having any bearing on Pakistan. However, Pakistan has been carrying out an international campaign to take it to the UNSC once again. The role of China in this case has also come under spotlight as the letter from Beijing was sent a day after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar returned from Beijing where he had met his counterpart Wang Yi and explained India’s official stance on the Kashmir issue. China had expressed unhappiness over the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir which led to the creation of a new Union Territory of Ladakh which hints at Indian claims over Aksai Chin that is part of the discussion on India-China Boundary Question.

Veteran diplomats say that a mention of Kashmir at this time in the UNSC is not a positive turn as it indicates that China is eager to pacify Pakistan’s concern and Russia, by not stopping the meeting, has indicated that it is not willing to play the role that it used to play during the 1970s and 1980s when the fear of the veto from Moscow under the Soviet Union was a significant deterrent for any Pakistani action at the UNSC on Kashmir.

Though Pakistan took up the issue in 1994 at the U.N. human rights body, during the tenure of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, Kashmir did not figure under the India-Pakistan Questions since December 1971. It, therefore, needs to be seen how various member-countries make their respective moves on the lingering issue in the meeting at the U.N.

France is the only country that will most probably veto it. They have a multi billion dollar contract with the Indians for Rafales, they wont jeopardize it because of Kashmir. Remember France and US Def sec Bolton were the only two countries who were actually endorsing India's right to so called self defense after Pulwama.

Yes France will veto it.

 

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Yeh kal pata chalega

 

[IbnAbdullah]

Salaam

France is the only country that will most probably veto it. They have a multi billion dollar contract with the Indians for Rafales, they wont jeopardize it because of Kashmir. Remember France and US Def sec Bolton were the only two countries who were actually endorsing India's right to so called self defense after Pulwama.

Could be but I doubt this thing is getting the attention it is getting because Pakistan did some magic diplomacy. I think part of why this is getting the attention in the UN is because the Chinese are also affected by this move.

 

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France is the only country that will most probably veto it. They have a multi billion dollar contract with the Indians for Rafales, they wont jeopardize it because of Kashmir. Remember France and US Def sec Bolton were the only two countries who were actually endorsing India's right to so called self defense after Pulwama.

Wouldnt France wanna test their planes by indian pilots? With war coming....indians will need the planes and might pay extra for quick service

 

[IceCold]

Salaam



Could be but I doubt this thing is getting the attention it is getting because Pakistan did some magic diplomacy. I think part of why this is getting the attention in the UN is because the Chinese are also affected by this move.

WaLakum As Salam
China was always there even when Pakistan lost its part in 71, why did China not raise the issue like this before? Yes they are affected but credit should be given where it is due, no Pakistani government has been able to internationalize this issue the way this government has done. Yes India made a move that irked China but you have to understand the world will not stand for you unless you stand for yourself. Yes there was no magic involved in the diplomacy, it was diplomacy smartly done by Pakistan.

Wouldnt France wanna test their planes by indian pilots? With war coming....indians will need the planes and might pay extra for quick service

Exactly! With war looming France would like to profit from it as much as they can. Kashmiries or Human Rights be damned.
The US on the other hand might want their F-16s to beat Rafale so that India would cancel the order and buy F-16s instead. Just a conspiracy theory.

 

[Imran Khan]

Yeh kal pata chalega

keep politics away few day be only pakistani