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India suggests winding up UN observers in Kashmir
Tuesday January 22, 2013 12:35:21 PM,
IANS
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United Nations: India
has suggested winding up the United Nations Military Observer
Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), saying its "role has been
overtaken by the Simla Agreement of 1972 between India and
Pakistan".
"In times of austerity, we need to address the question whether
the resources being spent on UNMOGIP would not be better utilised
elsewhere," India's Permanent Representative to UN Hardeep Singh
Puri said during a Security Council debate Monday on UN
peacekeeping.
"India is proud to have been associated with UN peacekeeping from
its very inception," he said, noting New Delhi has contributed
more than 100,000 peacekeepers to virtually every UN peacekeeping
operation in the past six decades.
"Unfortunately, resource allocation has failed to keep pace with
the mandate expansion, and peacekeeping missions are called upon
to do more and more with less and less," he said.
"Resources accorded need to be commensurate with the mandates and
efficiency measures should not compromise operational
necessities."
Later joining issue with Puri, Pakistan's representative suggested
"No bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan has overtaken
or affected the role or legality of UNMOGIP" and it continues to
monitor the ceasefire in accordance with Security Council
resolution.
In response, India's Counsellor Manish Gupta pointed out that "UNMOGIP's
role was to supervise the cease-fire line which was established in
Jammu and Kashmir as a result of the Karachi Agreement of 1949".
That cease-fire line no longer exists and a new cease-fire line
came into existence on 17 Dec, 1971 after the India-Pakistan war,
he said.
Following the Simla Agreement of 1972 between India and Pakistan,
the two countries resolved to respect the Line of Control
resulting from the Dec 17, 1971 ceasefire and settle their
differences by peaceful means through bilateral negotiations,
Gupta said.
"Subsequently, the Line of Control was delineated in Jammu and
Kashmir in pursuance to that agreement with approval of both the
governments," he said. "Thus, UNMOGIP's role has been overtaken by
these developments."
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