Kashmir unrest: Lodhi urges UNSC to call on India to comply with resolutions

Kashmir unrest: Lodhi urges UNSC to call on India to comply with resolutions

NEW YORK (Dunya News) – Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi on Thursday has met Chef de Cabinet to United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Maria Louisa Ribeiro Viotti and asked to play role in the crisis sparked by India’s unlawful action in occupied Kashmir. During the meeting, the Pakistani ambassador has urged the UN chief to call on India to comply with UN Security Council resolutions.

As the UN Sec Gen is away, I met Maria Louisa Ribeiro Viotti, his chief of staff today, and asked for the UN chief to play his due role in the crisis sparked by India’s unlawful action in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and call on India to comply with UN Security Council resolutions pic.twitter.com/xIBQEsu9TK

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) August 8, 2019

Earlier, Lodhi had apprised the President of UN Security Council Joanna Wronecka about the grave threat to regional peace and security posed by India’s illegal actions in occupied Kashmir. In a tweet, she said that during a meeting in New York, she briefed UNSC president in detail about the violations of UN Security Council resolutions by India. The meetings are being held following Indian government’s move of ending occupied Kashmir’s special status by repealing Articles 370 and 35A. The announcement was made by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah during his address in Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian parliament. Shah said, “Kashmir will no longer be a state. It will be divided into two union territories – Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature." He also told that the valley would be re-organized geographically. The revocation of the articles has allowed other non-Muslim Indian citizens to buy land in the valley while a separate legislative assembly will be established there for its own laws.