PARIS: The hope that the UN Security Council “would honour its urgent and moral responsibility to implement its own decisions on Kashmir” was expressed by Mr Z.A. Bhutto, Pakistan Foreign Minister, in an exclusive interview here today [Oct 10].

Mr Bhutto, who left today for New York to take part in the Security Council deliberations on the withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops to the original cease-fire line and on the steps to settle the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Council’s resolution of Sept 20, felt satisfied with the talks he had here with Monsieur Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister.

The impression of “Dawn’s” UN correspondent last Wednesday that “France along among the Big Four is actively supporting the creation of a Security Council machinery to pursue a Kashmir settlement” was borne out by the Paris visit of Mr Bhutto, who described France’s attitude [towards] Kashmir as “objective and constructive”.

Unofficial French sources indicated to this correspondent that France would not only like to see an effective machinery set up to settle the Kashmir dispute in an equitable manner, she is apparently more anxious than the United States, Soviet Union, or Britain to ensure some sort of synchronisation between the withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops and the creation of a UN Committee to bring permanent peace to the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2015

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