The United Nations has reported that the US-mediated India-Pakistan ceasefire is “holding” and that the two South Asian neighbours should use this opportunity to deal with the “outstanding issues” between them, APP reports.

“The ceasefire is holding,” the UN secretary general’s spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said in response to a question at the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.

“I think we have seen that we’re in a better place than we were before, and we hope the ceasefire will continue to hold, “ he said.

“We hope that the parties will use this [opportunity] to deal with a lot of the outstanding issues between them,” Dujarric added.

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