Russia stuns India, invokes UN resolutions on Kashmir

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  • Russia stuns India, invokes UN resolutions on Kashmir | Deccan Herald
    https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/russia-stuns-india-invokes-un-resolutions-on-kashmir-754894.html

    India has been invoking Simla Agreement and Lahore Declaration to resist attempts by Pakistan to internationalise the bilateral dispute over Kashmir and raise it at the UN General Assembly or the Security Council. 

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    India’s position was well known to its “old friend” Russia. 

    Yet Russia’s deputy envoy to United Nations on Friday ended up echoing Pakistan’s “iron brother” China, when he expressed hope that New Delhi and Islamabad should settle the dispute in accordance with bilateral agreements as well as UN charter and resolutions. 

    New Delhi reached out to all the five permanent members – US, China, Russia, France and United Kingdom – as well as most of the 10 non-permanent members of the UNSC over the past 24 hours in order to make sure that the closed-door consultation within the council does not lead to formal return of the J&K issue on the Horse-Shoe Table.

    But the only P-5 nation New Delhi was relying on without an iota of doubt was Russia. 

    India was pretty convinced that Russia would firmly stand by it and stop the UNSC from taking any decision that might help Pakistan internationalise the issue of Kashmir. 

    Moscow had in fact endorsed New Delhi’s position when Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had called his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday to seek support against the recent decisions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government on J&K. “There is no alternative to resolve differences between Pakistan and India except bilaterally through political and diplomatic means,” a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Government had quoted Lavrov telling Qureshi.

    Moscow had earlier also endorsed New Delhi’s argument that Modi Government’s decisions on J&K were “internal” affairs of India. 

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic – the predecessor of the Russian Federation – had used its veto at the UNSC several times in the past to foil attempts on behalf of Pakistan to get the Security Council to pass resolutions against India on the issue of Kashmir.

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