Closed door consultations on Kashmir by UN Security Council
United Nations sources stated that the UN Security Council (UNSC) is to hold closed door consultations on the Kashmir developments on Friday at the request of china, a diplomat at the Security Council told on Thursday. The diplomat said that china’s request for the meeting was made in a letter and came up during the Council’s informal consultations on Wednesday.
The format of the meeting as a closed door consultation would preclude pakistan participating in it, the diplomat said. As a closed door meeting, the consultation’s proceedings would be secret, without being broadcast or accessible to reporters. china wanted the consultations to take place on Thursday, but since the schedule was already set for the day without any meetings, it was to be taken up on Friday, the diplomat said.
The diplomat said that the office of the Security Council President Joanna Wronecka of poland was working out the details for holding the meeting and when it was to be held. pakistan had asked for a meeting of the UNSC on Kashmir following india’s decision to rescind Articles 370 and 35A of its Constitution that gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status. Except for china, all the other four permanent members of the Council have openly backed New delhi’s position that disputes between india and pakistan are bilateral matters, with the US even saying that the Kashmir developments are an internal matter of india.