NEW YORK: Russian envoy statement on Occupied Kashmir after UNSC meet mayirk India as Russian Deputy Representative at UN termed it a dispute to besettled bilaterally with Pakistan against Indian stance of unilateral move.
Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations DmitryPolyanski has said that Moscow will continue its efforts to promotenormalization of ties between the Pakistan and India.
In a series of posts on Twitter, the Russian envoy said, his country hopesthat the existing divergences around Kashmir will be settled bilaterally bypolitical and diplomatic means between the nuclear states.
He added that “Russia continues to consistently promote normalization ofIndia-Pakistan ties.”
Russian envoy added “We hope that existing divergences around Kasmir willbe settled bilaterally by political and diplomatic means only on the basisof Simla Agreement of 1972 and Lahore declaration of 1999, in accordancewith UN Charter, relevant UN resolutions and bilateral agreements betweenIndia and Pakistan”.
Polyanski further said Russia is friends and good partners with both Indiaand Pakistan and both peoples. “We have no hidden agendas. So we willopen-heartedly continue to engage with Islamabad and New Delhi in order tohelp both of them come to terms and have good neighborly relationsKashmir,” he added.
The Russian envoy’s tweets came after UN Security Council’s meeting onFriday which was called to discuss the critical situation in Indianoccupied Kashmir.
The UNSC met behind closed doors at the request of China and Pakistandiscussed the Indian government’s recent decision to revoke the specialstatus of occupied Kashmir.
The council had taken up the issue of the critical situation in IndianOccupied Kashmir after more than 50 years since it was last discussed onthe platform, effectively rejecting India’s stance that occupied Kashmirwas an internal issue and not an internationally recognised dispute.