*ISLAMABAD: **PM Imran Khan responds over UN Security Council meeting overOccupied Kashmir.*

*While welcoming Friday’s Unite**d Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting,Prime Minister Imran Khan said the session reaffirmed past 11 resolutionsof the world body with regards to Kashmir dispute.*

In a Twitter post on Saturday, the premier said, “I welcome the UNSCmeeting to discuss the serious situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Itis for the first time in over 50 yrs that the world’s highest diplomaticforum has taken up this issue.”

He added that there are 11 UNSC resolutions reiterating the Kashmiris rightto self-determination.

“The UNSC meeting was a reaffirmation of these resolutions. Thereforeaddressing the suffering of the Kashmiri people and ensuring resolution ofthe dispute is the responsibility of this world body,” PM Khan wrote.

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A day earlier, the UNSC met behind the closed doors in over five decades todiscuss the Kashmir issue upon the request of Pakistan and China. Themeeting was convened following the Indian government’s recent decision torevoke the special status of occupied Kashmir.

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhihas said that the Security Council’s emergency meeting has nullified Indianclaims that Kashmir is their internal matter.

“Pakistan will always stand by Kashmiris, extending full diplomatic andpolitical support,” she said, adding that voices of Kashmiris were heard atthe meeting of the UNSC.