ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS Chairman Kashmir Council Europe (KC-EU) MrAli Raza Syed has urged the international community, especially United Nation (UN) to arrange a promised plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, during which the Kashmiri people could be able to use their right of self-determination. It is important to mention that Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and Kashmiri diaspora abroad observe the Right to Self-determination Day on 5th January every year in order to remind the world that UN’s resolutions on Kashmir including a particular resolution on their right of self-determination remain unimplemented even after seven decades. On this day in 1949, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution, acknowledging the Kashmiris’ right of selfdetermination. In a statement on the day of ‘Right to Self-determination Day’, Chairman Kashmir Council EU said, the right to self-determination was promised by the international community and now it is duty of the world community to implement the UN’s resolutionson Kashmir. Expressing serious concern over current situation of Indian occupied Kashmir, Chairman Kashmir Council said, situation in occupied Kashmir is terrible as Indian government continued siege of the occupied valley since august last year. Thousands of the Kashmiris are arrested, rest of the people of that occupied region face hardships as they don’t have enough communication links and are witnessing of shortage of food and medicines.—Agencies
