New York, August 16: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled on Friday morning to hold a closed-door consultation session to discuss the pertaining situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The session is slated to kick-off at around 10 am (local time), as per the time table of the UN.
The session was requested by China – a permanent member state of the board of the UNSC, as per Sputnik news reports, after the Indian ruling government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to scrap Article 370 from the nation’s constitution and remove a special status given to Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi wrote a letter to the UNSC president, Joanna Wronecka, and urged the panel to convene an urgent session on Indian government’s decision to recognize Jammu and Kashmir and revoking of Article 370, according to ANI news reports.
Citing the letter sent to Wronecka by Qureshi, Beijing had requested a closed-door consultation session on Jammu and Kashmir.
Since New Delhi has revoked Article 370, Islamabad has heightened its rhetorics against India and urged the international committee to interfere and resolve the matter, though the Indian ministry of external affairs has claimed the Kashmir issue is an internal matter and would be solved bilateral and diplomatically with Pakistan.
Pakistan has alleged India’s revocation of all provisions under Article 370 will not only affect or threaten the regional peace but would also risk peace in the region.