As UNSC president, Pakistan looks to up ante on Kashmir issue

NEW DELHI: As the month-long Pakistan presidency of the UNSC nears its concern end, Islamabad is gearing up to organise an unfastened statement connected unresolved disputes astir the world, looking to travel it up with a solution urging member-states to usage mechanisms disposable to them for pacific colony of disputes.While the motive down convening this signature lawsuit nether the UN's attraction of planetary bid and information docket is to item the Kashmir issue, it's improbable Pakistan volition sanction J&K for fearfulness of getting the solution vetoed. UNSC resolutions request 9 votes to pass, including concurrence of each 5 imperishable members.Pakistani lawman PM & overseas curate Ishaq Dar volition question to New York to seat the lawsuit connected July 22, which volition apt beryllium briefed by caput wide Antonio Guterres too.According to the Security Council Report, Pakistan aims to follow the solution urging afloat usage of each Chapter VI mechanisms. Article 33 of the Chapter states that the parties to immoderate dispute, the continuance of which is apt to endanger the attraction of planetary bid and security, shall question a solution by, among different things, mediation and arbitration. However, the aforesaid Article besides says the parties tin question a solution done "other peaceful means of their ain choice".

"Generic solution which volition astir apt beryllium conceptual successful quality volition absorption connected wide principles not circumstantial issues to debar immoderate objections," says Syed Akbaruddin, erstwhile Indian ambassador to the UN. Pakistan besides knows that, but China, each different imperishable members proceed to support that Kashmir is simply a bilateral issue.While underlining the Council's relation successful maintaining bid and security, galore member-states accent immoderate specified effort can't undermine a State's sovereignty oregon invoke colony agreements without the consent of some parties.

The unfastened statement follows closed consultations called by Pakistan connected May 5 to sermon India-Pakistan tensions aft Pahalgam violent attack.Pakistan volition besides convene different signature lawsuit nether its presidency, hoping to fortify practice betwixt the UN and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 57-member assemblage that has repeatedly expressed enactment for Islamabad's Kashmir agenda.