{"id":402724,"date":"2021-01-30T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402724"},"modified":"2021-01-30T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:05:58","slug":"un-chief-calls-on-india-pakistan-to-solve-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/un-chief-calls-on-india-pakistan-to-solve-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls on India, Pakistan to solve problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA(SONNA)<\/strong>:UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and Pakistan to \u201ccome together\u201d and solve their problems as any military confrontation would be a disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur good offices are always available [for mediation] and we will insist within it\u2026 finding peaceful solutions for problems that have no military solution,\u201d he said at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York that was aired live late Thursday.<\/p>\n

Guterres was referring to his statement made on the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region after India unilaterally annexed the region Aug. 5, 2019.<\/p>\n

The UN chief encouraged the resolution of the Kashmir dispute according to UN resolutions and its charter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear when seeing Pakistan and India, any military confrontation between the two would be a disaster of unmitigated proportions for both countries and for the whole world,\u201d said Guterres.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] is absolutely essential to have a de-escalation of the situation, namely in the Line of Contact [Line of Control, or LoC],\u201d he said, referring to the dividing line in Jammu and Kashmir which has seen a recent escalation of cease-fire violations.<\/p>\n

The UN deployed a military observer group (UNMOGP) on the two sides of the LoC to monitor the cease-fire and Pakistan last month accused India of \u201cspecifically targeting\u201d UNMOGIP officials in the Chirikot sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmir along the LoC.<\/p>\n

New Delhi has denied involvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is essential that human rights are fully respected in all territories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A report by the Legal Forum for Kashmir assessing the human rights situation in India-administered Kashmir in 2020 said 474 people, including 232 suspected militants and 177 Indian troops, were killed in the region.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five civilians were killed \u201cextrajudicially,\u201d the report claimed.<\/p>\n

Indian authorities said 225 militants were killed in Jammu and Kashmir last year while 16 policemen and 44 Indian soldiers died in operations or militant attacks.<\/p>\n

Last year, during a visit to Pakistan in February, the UN chief emphasized de-escalation and diplomacy in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.<\/p>\n

\u201cUN Security Council resolutions [should] be implemented, humans rights respected and continental freedoms\u201d allowed in the Himalayan region, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn relation to the ceasefire, I visited UNMOGIP. We believe that UNMOGIP should have full freedom of movement. It has on the Pakistani side, we hope that this will also be achieved on the other side. We will be strengthening its equipment capacity in order to better be able to implement its mandate,\u201d Guterres said at a news conference in Islamabad alongside Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.<\/p>\n

Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan region, is held by India and Pakistan in parts and claimed by both in full. A small sliver of Kashmir is also held by China.<\/p>\n

Since they were partitioned in 1947, New Delhi and Islamabad have fought three wars \u2013 in 1948, 1965 and 1971 \u2013 two of them regarding Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Also, in the Siachen Glacier region of northern Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani troops have fought intermittently since 1984. A cease-fire took effect in 2003.<\/p>\n

Some Kashmiri groups in Jammu and Kashmir have been fighting Indian rule for independence or unification with Pakistan.<\/p>\n

According to several human rights organizations, thousands have reportedly been killed in the conflict since 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA(SONNA):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and Pakistan to \u201ccome together\u201d and solve their problems as any military confrontation would be a disaster. \u201cOur good offices are always available [for mediation] and we will insist within it\u2026 finding peaceful solutions for problems that have no military solution,\u201d he said at a news conference at UN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402727,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402724\/revisions\/402727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}