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UN offers help in defusing Pakistan-India tensions
UNITED NATIONS: Expressing deep concern “at the increase in tensions between India and Pakistan”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has asked both sides to exercise maximum restraint and offered his “good offices” to ease the crisis.
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“The secretary general stresses the importance for both sides to exercise maximum restraint and take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions. His good offices are available if accepted by both sides,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary general, while responding to a question at a media briefing.
Pakistan has accepted such offers by the UN chief in the past, but India has been reluctant to involve the world body in an issue that it terms a bilateral dispute.
Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2019
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Excellent move by the U N. Reason must prevail... Peace!
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
Why India is not accepting the offer of UNITED NATIONS to defuse tension and resolve DIspute on Indian occupied Kashmir.
Illegal occupation cannot be bilateral..its time for world to resolve otherwise poor Kashmiris keep getting killed.
No need..
Modi regime only believes in bully bluster and false propeganda.
They don't believe in talking like mature civilised people.
Maybe Pakistan should avail his good offices to settle boundary dispute with Afghanistan, and see how THAT goes.
A timely just plea by the U.N.Secretary General Mr.Antonio Guterres to both India and Pakistan.Both countries should send their Foreign Ministers to New York City for the Meeting to defuse this volatile tense situation.The Prime purpose of United Nations is to maintain Peace in the world.Pakistan and India are Members of United Nations.
No one going to listen UN.
YES. Of course india will reject this with a ‘bilateral matter’ excuse.
The countdown has begun. This cannot be stopped now.
you must be kidding
You can go to the U N, or you can go to violence on an epic scale! Reason must trump passion... Or, is there another solution?
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
Who is UN?
UN has no role to play after Shimla Agreement.
India has a very consistent reluctance to involve any third party mediation
We should focus on permanent solution of the Kashmir issue, this cycle of infuse & defuse is to sweep under the carpet and then wake up with new tensions...
India only understand the language of violence and war not peace.
There is only one solution whether India realize and accept the facts now or later. Occupation of a large estate or country never lasts long. Let Kashmiris choose and help them settle down.
Modi is using this incident to gain his political ground.
India will get exposed of its atrocities in Kashmir as such it will not accept U N mediation. It also does not have concrete evidence to prove Pakistan was involved in the attack.
@rakesh, and why are you guys members of UN then?
what tension? we grew-up together in this tension
Thanks for the offer but India doesn’t want to defuse the situation. Maybe after their election
UN is just another Ametican entity......they should dissolve UN......
UN should first notice the Indian atrocities, severe human rights violations, and Indian terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
No thanks UN. We can handle India.
UN is out of question in this issue.
The UN Secretary General is more than right on this highly sensitive issue. The UN should leave no stone unturned in bringing both India and Pakistan to the negotiating table.
Oppression of Kashmiri people and peace in Kashmir cannot co-exist. The only question is how long India can shamelessly hold on to Kashmir.
India thinks, its easy...
UN has no mandate. It is a bilateral issue between two countries.
India will never ever think of it. They are terrorists. Exporter of terrorist. Their religion promotes false propaganda. Hindus are Terrorist Indians are terrorist
@PAF Thunder, how??
Time to refrain from disputes and find a permanent solution for Kashmir and Kashmiris.
@Hassan , keep repeating it if it makes you feel better but the world knows who is who
It's bilateral issue no need of intervention of third party.
The Indians only need the help of the United Nations or its Security Council when they are in trouble or losing a battle. Otherwise they have no utility for them. It is their standard norm which can be verified from history. That provides them with an opportunity to delay the solution to any problems which would go against their interests.
@rakesh, "No one going to listen UN."
That's why India will NEVER be granted permanent seat of UNSC.
@rakesh, "No one going to listen UN."
& you dream of a permanent member of UNSC. Which basis?
@Deee, That is not because what you think. That is because indians stink to the third parties.
@Rajput, India has no role in the permanent seat of UNSC.
Time for the world to resolve the Kashmir issue in accordance to the aspirations of Kashmiris.
i wish if you could impose not help. Pending UNSC resolutions to settle down the bone of contention between Pakistan and India are big question mark on your efficacy and authority.
@bhaRAT©, one can only do that if the other party is matured and civilised!
@Gordon D. Walker,
I don't think that you know what are the reasons.
Excellent move by UN to find the truth, both India & Pakistan need to Collaborate . If there are genuine links with banned groups in Pakistan, we should support Imran to punish these people once and for all.
This time Indian army will solve the Kashmir issue forever.
So UN has solved Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Palestine issues and now has a lot of time and expertise to solve Kashmi
@Chopra, and stopped
@Jamil Soomro, New York City, Had the world body and international community been serious to resolve the issue, UN resolution passed by the majority nation is already there to hold plebiscite in held Kashmir, but it is India who has been refusing all this time to implement it.
@NPS, if it is so, then why not sit & settle the issue ? we have offered dialog a number of times, but the whole world has seen that it is India ho has been refusing to sit down.
@Rauflala, if it is so, why not both the country sit & settle it ? pakistan is on record to have offered olve branch for dialog to settle the issue, but the whole world is a witness to India`s non-serious attitude.
@Bangash, - "Time to refrain from disputes and find a permanent solution for Kashmir and Kashmiris."
Yes, Indian army is working on a Permanent solution. Be a little patient.
@PrakashG, That's the problem with you Indians, you don't want to talk/look at the problem that you have created (i.e. Occupied Kashmir) and instead point towards something that's a non-issue for India. UN in this case has offered both Indian and Pakistan a chance to defuse the farcical tension created by India.!
No never
When UN cannot resolve Israel and Palestine issue from decades, how will it resolve Kashmir issue?
@Gaurav, “Yes, Indian army is working on a Permanent solution. Be a little patient.”
Don’t forget how Hitler’s permanent solution ended.
Whatever the Indian diversions, the Kashmir issue remains and will remain the basic problem to be solved for peace in the region.
India has more to gain from implementing UN rulings in Kashmir. More happiness, and faster capital for example.
And yes, we've read UN resolution. Nowhere it states that Kashmir is any part of India.
@Gaurav,
You cannot kill an entire nation with pallet guns.
@rakesh, so why did India go to international court for kulbushan, and asks international community to help isolate and put pressure on Pakistan, if it doesn’t believe in outside mediation on resolving Kashmir. It can’t have it’s cake and eat it!
I any country don't accept the offers of UN so other countries should take a strict action against her specially UN because if they start fighting with eachother probably its can lead to 3rd world war and will not only distroy eachother but can also have a thread to neighbor countries.
@PrakashG, Maybe you should learn to be mature.