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Geelani to Omar: ‘Don’t intervene in UN observers’ role’

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 1/24/2013 12:08:52 AM

SRINAGAR, Jan 23: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) today asked chief minister Omar Abdullah not to intervene in the role of UN military observers in J&K as he is irrelevant for such an issue.
“It is better for him (Omar Abdullah) to confine himself to administration only. He issued the statement on Un observers to appease the masters in Delhi and stop Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Saif-u- Din Soz for their role in Kashmir politics,” Geelani said in a statement.
He termed the relevance and the presence of UN military observers in Kashmir of vital importance. Geelani said ‘Kashmiri’s as a party were not included in Shimla Agreement and thus the agreement has not over taken the role of UN observers’.
He questioned India’s right to raise the issue of legality of UN observers as ‘it was India that submitted the case in United Nations’.
“Though United Nation has not played an impressive and allocated role and exhibited negligence ,yet no power on earth can deny the importance of deployment of its observers in Jammu and Kashmir. Their presence stands a logic and clear proof that Kashmir is in no way a part of India. It is disputed in nature and the resolution with regards to its future political destiny is yet to be resolved,” Hurriyat (G) chairman said.
Geelani, while referring to the bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan, said that since 1947 the two nations signed the agreements and resolved to settle the issue but in absence of the prime party no positive results were yielded. “These agreements had proved that presence of UN observers has not lost its importance. India as an appellant had requested the UN intervention and it would be unjustified and a sort of disregard to impress its demand for the withdrawal of the UN troops from the disputed territory”, said Hurriyat (G) chairman adding “It does not suit a nation to disassociate and show indifference to international agreements which once it has endorsed”.
Geelani while referring the history said, Jammu and Kashmir was a sovereign state till 1947 and “India with its aggressive policy and invasion by its forces occupied the state”. “India sought the intervention of United Nations and even the 18 resolutions it agreed upon in UN stand testimony for resolution of Kashmir dispute”.
He said that the resolutions observed and accorded in United Nations provide a moral and constitutional support to Kashmir cause.