Karachi, January 05, 2023 (PPI-OT): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while reiterating his commitment to support the right of self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, has emphasized that the international community, especially the United Nations, should follow through on its promises and take steps that will help Jammu and Kashmir.
The people should be ensured the right to self-determination according to the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. In his message on the occasion of Self-Determination Day on Thursday, he said that on this day in 1949, the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan (UNCIP) unanimously held a free and impartial referendum organized by the United Nations.
He said that the right to self-determination is a fundamental principle of international law which has been upheld in international human rights documents. In its annual resolution on self-determination the foreign minister said that this day highlights the need for the international community, especially the United Nations, to respect the determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that the last 75 years of Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir under the illegal rule of India is a sad story of oppression of the Kashmiri people. He said that India has fuelled the market of terror in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and refuses to give these oppressed people the right to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and to live a life of dignity.
India 5 August 2019 has taken illegal and unilateral actions, India is making demographic and political changes in the occupied valley to turn Kashmiris into a powerless minority in their own land. Bilawal Bhutto said that it is time that the international community, especially the United Nations To fulfill its commitments and take steps that will allow the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the UN Security Council Resolutions
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