ISLAMABAD: The Jammu and Kashmir dispute remains on the United Nations Security Council’s agenda, a UN spokesman categorically stated on Tuesday as he rejected “inaccurate” reports that it has been removed from the list of unresolved issues.
“Some articles that appeared recently on Kashmir are inaccurate,” UN Spokesman Farhan Haq said, according to a Foreign Office statement.
He said the UN’s latest list of matters “continues to include the agenda item under which the council has taken up Kashmir which, by a decision of the council, remains on the list for this year,” the spokesman added.
Earlier, a spokesman for the Pakistan Mission in UN clarified that Pakistan’s Acting Ambassador Amjad Hussain Sial, in his speech to the General Assembly on November 12 had referred to the omission of Jammu and Kashmir dispute in a statement by the president of the Security Council, and not from the Council’s Annual Report – as reported in a section of press.
“The agenda item entitled, ‘India and Pakistan Question’, which covers Jammu and Kashmir dispute, is duly mentioned in the Annual Report of the Security Council and is also present on its agenda,” spokesman Jehangir Iqbal said.
The president for the current month, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, while presenting the Annual Report to the 192-member assembly, did not mention the Kashmir dispute in the context of unresolved long-running situations, despite the fact decades-old issue is included in the Annual Report.
“We understand this was an inadvertent omission, as Jammu and Kashmir is one of the oldest disputes on agenda of the Security Council,” Sial said.
