‘Kashmiris will not give up their struggle for right to self-determination’
Brussels: The Chairman of Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU), Ali Raza Syed, has said that the Kashmiris will not give up their struggle for securing the internationally-recognized right to self-determination.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Ali Raza Syed said this in a statement issued in Brussels in connection with the Kashmiris’ Right to Self-Determination Day, the 5th January.
On 5th January in 1949 the UN Commission for India and Pakistan had passed a resolution supporting the Kashmiris’ right to decide their future by themselves through a UN-sponsored plebiscite.
The KCEU Chairman said, the UN resolution of January 5, 1949 provides a base for settlement of the Kashmir dispute while India’s adverse attitude had been an obstacle to achieve this objective. He said it is unfortunate that the World Body has failed to implement its resolutions, resulting in the continued sufferings of the Kashmiri people.
Ali Raza Syed said, India has been committing the worst state terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir for the last over 76 years. It has given its troops, police, military and paramilitary personnel unchecked powers to commit atrocities on the people of the occupied territory seeking their United Nations-recognized right to self-determination, he lamented.
He maintained that permanent peace in South Asia is not possible without the settlement of the Kashmir conflict. He called upon the UN to implement its resolutions to settle the lingering dispute.
