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UN concerned at Kashmir situation
NEW DELHI. Aug 26: The United States permanent UN representative Thomas Pickering said today the world body was concerned with the problems of human rights violations and terrorism in the Indian state of Kashmir, reports AFP
Pickering, who arrived here today on a two-day visit, told reporters that the United Naliora! was concerned with both problems. But he>satd the world body would consider h mediatory role only If approached by "both the parties "
The UN cannot be the first
resort for settling conflicts, but It may consider to mediate If both the sides approached it for a settlement," he said, without specifying the two sides.
India which has fought two of Its three wars with Pakistan, holds a northern third of the lormcr princely Hindu Kingdom since the 1947 part I -lion of the subcontinent by the British.
Muslim militants spearheading a secessionist drive In Kashmir have frequently urged the UN to press Irwlta to abide by the world body’s 1947 ruling for a referendum in Kashmir, the country's only Muslim majority sate.
The UN has so far not responded to, the militants' demand saying India should settle the Issue bilaterally with Pakistan under the provision ol a 1972 agreement between the two neighbours.
Pickering, who arrived here ahead of next month's UN General Assembly session, said Washington also favoured a settlement to the bloody conflict through the Indo-Pakistan pact and not by any third-party Intervention.
The UN has said the separatist violence, should stop in Kashmir where Indian troops are battling the militants in a continuing offensive criticised in several quarters as "flagrant human rights violations.'
Scores of people have died in violence linked to the Muslim secessionist drive tn Kashmir which gained momentum January 1990 when the militants took to arms in the provincial valley leading a mass uprising.
India has charged Pakistan with aiding the militants of Kashmir, but Islamabad, which has extended moral and diplomatic support to the secessionist campaign has denied the accusations as false.
In another development in Bhopal I’D adds: Eight police and Special Armed Force (SAF)
pick-up van carrying them exploded after hitting a land mine laid by Naxals near village Injram In Konta Tehsil of Bas tar district in Madhya Pradesh today.
The dead included one assistant sub-inspector, police said adding a total of fourteen personnel were on the van.