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- The UN Security Council will be meeting at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
- The last time UNSC discussed Kashmir was in 1971 during the Bangladesh war which led to the Simla agreement.
- UNSC Resolution 307 had taken up the Kashmir issue in the backdrop of the war of 1971 while demanding ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
- But after the 1972 Simla Agreement between India and Pakistan,India had informed the U.N about the treaty which had turned Kashmir into a bilateral subject.
- Therefore,the UNSC first of all has to discuss if the members have the legal space to deal with the Kashmir issue as India and Pakistan had termed Kashmir as a bilateral issue through Simla treaty.
- However,diplomats have said that a mention of Kashmir in the UNSC is not a positive turn for India as it indicates that China is eager to pacify Pakistan’s concern.
- Further,Russia is also not willing to play the role that it used to play during the 1970s and 1980s when the fear of the veto from Soviet Union was a significant deterrent for any Pakistani action at the UNSC on Kashmir.
