UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9: Pakistan on Tuesday called on the international community to play a positive role to enable the people of Jammu & Kashmir to exercise their right to self-determination and to end their suffering and deprivation in accordance with their obligations under the UN Charter and the international covenants.

Addressing the UN General Assembly’s third committee during its consideration of the agenda item, entitled: “Right of People’s to self-determination” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram noted “six decades have elapsed by since the Kashmiri people were promised the exercise of their right to self-determination by UN Security Council resolutions.

The April 1948 Security Council resolution declared that “the only way to settle the Kashmir problem peacefully was to demilitarize the State and hold a plebiscite under the UN supervision.”

“Ultimately, strategies that deny self-determination prove to be counter-productive”, stressed Mr Akram.