UN resolutions on Kashmir relevant: Pak

‘Delhi, Islamabad have to settle K issue’

United Nations, Jan 4: Described the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir issue as an "important framework" for its settlement, Pakistan has said UN resolutions on Kashmir are relevant.  "When we talk about the bilateral dimension of this issue (Kashmir), of course it has to be settled by India and Pakistan. We do realise that UN resolutions are an important framework for settlement of this dispute," Pakistan's Ambassador to UN Masood Khan said in United Nations.  He was briefing reporters on his country assuming the month-long presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council. When asked if Kashmir issue should be resolved bilaterally or under the auspices of the UN, Khan said, “It cannot be characterised in such stark terms. The UN resolutions are there and they are relevant. In the meantime the dialogue between India and Pakistan must continue."

Pakistan has raised Kashmir at the UN forum time and again but India has insisted that it is its internal matter. In December 2012, Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had said that his country seeks to resolve the Kashmir issue on the basis of United Nations resolutions and aspiration of the Kashmiri people. Khan cited the recent increased engagement between India and Pakistan on a host of issues including trade and said top leadership of the two countries have met as the nations moved towards engagement. "While India and Pakistan engage each other on a whole range of issues, we have always been and we make all sorts of overtures to India and there is greater interaction between civil societies of the two countries,” he said.

Khan said it is the aspiration of the people of Pakistan that longstanding issues particularly the issue of Jammu and Kashmir should be settled in accordance with the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and a solution which has the concurrence of both India and Pakistan.

Source: http://www.risingkashmir.in/news/un-resolutions-on-kashmir-relevant-pak-39401.aspx