Can Assist On Kashmir If Both Parties Agree: UN General Assembly Chief-Elect
The UNGA president-elect arrived in Islamabad on Sunday on a two-day consult with (Representational)
New Delhi:
UN Common Meeting president-elect Volkan Bozkir on Monday stated that he’s in a position to assist Pakistan and India inside of his mandate to unravel their variations on Kashmir factor if asked via each the events.
Addressing a information convention in conjunction with Pakistan Overseas Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Mr Bozkir stated that the answer of the Kashmir factor was once important for sustainable peace in South Asia, and presented that he can assist as according to his mandate.
“If my help is asked via the events, I can be in a position to offer contributions inside of my mandate,” he stated.
New Delhi’s long-held place has been that Kashmir is a bilateral factor between India and Pakistan and there’s no query of any mediation or intervention via any 3rd birthday celebration.
After India revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing on August five ultimate 12 months and introduced the bifurcation of the State into two Union Territories of J&Ok and Ladakh, Pakistan attempted to internationalise the problem.
India has firmly instructed Pakistan that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and shall proceed to be an integral a part of India. Problems associated with Jammu and Kashmir are inner subject to India.
Mr Bozkir, the first-ever Turkish nationwide to be elected to the Place of job of the President of the UNGA, was once slated to consult with Pakistan on July 26-27 however the consult with was once postponed mentioning “some technical flight issues.”
He additionally stated that “regional safety will have to be maintained via political and diplomatic manner”. He added that each one problems will have to be resolved peacefully via significant mutual engagements.
Bozkir feedback got here after he held detailed talks with Qureshi on other problems, together with Kashmir.
The UNGA president-elect arrived in Islamabad on Sunday on a two-day consult with on the invitation of the federal government of Pakistan.
Speaking about his assembly with Top Minister Imran Khan, Mr Bozkir referred to as him “a well known political determine on the planet” who has a imaginative and prescient for the area and the arena.
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