The Secretary-General’s remarks came after India on Monday revoked Article 370 to withdraw the special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories
Current Affairs:-UN boss Antonio Guterres on Thursday asked India and Pakistan to work out “most extreme restriction” and abstain from making strides that could influence the status of Jammu and Kashmir, as he featured the Simla Agreement which rejects any outsider intervention on the issue.
The Secretary-General’s comments came after India on Monday disavowed Article 370 to pull back the exceptional status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Pakistan named the Indian activity as “one-sided and illicit”, and said it will take the issue to the UN Security Council.
“The Secretary-General has been following the circumstance in Jammu and Kashmir with concern and makes an intrigue for most extreme limitation,” Guterres’ representative Stephane Dujarric said here.
Dujarric explicitly said that the Secretary-General “additionally reviews the 1972 Agreement on respective relations among India and Pakistan, otherwise called the Simla Agreement, which expresses that the last status of Jammu and Kashmir is to be settled by serene signifies” as per the Charter of the United Nations.
The Secretary General did not offer his great workplaces nor did he make any idea to intervene among India and Pakistan on Kashmir.
Rather, he alluded to the Simla Agreement, which is a reciprocal understanding among India and Pakistan and rejects any outsider intercession in the issue.
Guterres likewise called “on all gatherings to forgo making strides” that could influence the status of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the situation of the United Nations on the locale was administered by the Charter of the United Nations and is material to Security Council goals.
At the point when gotten some information about reference to the UNSC goals on Kashmir in the announcement, Dujarric said “I’m not going to go into any more particulars of the explanation which additionally alludes to our worry” about reports of confinements in Kashmir in India.
“So I’ll allude you to the announcement,” he said.
Dujarric repeated that Guterres and the UN Secretariat were following the circumstance “all around intently”.
He said there had been contacts from the UN Secretariat both with the Indian and Pakistani specialists and with the Permanent Missions of India and Pakistan.
He said there is no arrangement for the Secretary-General to brief the Security Council on Kashmir.
Responding to India’s turn, Pakistan ousted the Indian agent and minimized its political ties with New Delhi.
India has said that Jammu and Kashmir is an indispensable piece of India and the issue was carefully interior to the nation.
Aditi Mehta 