...an idea whose time has gone...
Security Council (UNSC) held a meeting on Wednesday on Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it
Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and reviewed the situation in the India-occupied valley.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood
WormtongueQureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
, currently on a mission to defuse tensions between the United States and Iran, also reached New York on Wednesday afternoon and met UN leaders before proceeding to Washington.
His first meeting was with UN Secretary General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years..., followed by a meeting with the President of the UN General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande.
Although the UNSC meeting took place behind closed doors, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun spoke to journalists outside the chamber, confirming that the council had reviewed the situation in the occupied land.
"We had a meeting on Jammu and Kashmir," he said. "The Security Council heard a briefing from the secretariat on the situation."
The ambassador recalled that recently Mr Qureshi had written letters to the Security Council to pay attention to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The issue of India and Pakistain is always on the agenda of the Security Council," said the Chinese ambassador while pointing out that "recently, we have also seen some tensions."
Asked what China’s position on the situation in Kashmir was, he said: "Our position is very clear." China recognises Kashmir as a territory disputed between India and Pakistain and openly supports Islamabad’s demand for a plebiscite to enable the Kashmiri people to decide their own future.