{"id":90521,"date":"2020-01-16T00:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90521"},"modified":"2020-01-16T00:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:02:59","slug":"china-demands-discussion-on-kashmir-in-unsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/china-demands-discussion-on-kashmir-in-unsc\/","title":{"rendered":"China demands discussion on Kashmir in UNSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi, Jan 15:<\/strong> China has demanded discussion on Kashmir during a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe current move by China is third such attempt since August when the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was scrapped by the government, and the state was bifurcated into two union territories.<br \/>\nFrench diplomatic sources said France has noted the request of a UNSC member<br \/>\nto raise the Kashmir issue once again in the powerful body and it is going to oppose it like it did on a previous occasion.<br \/>\nThe closed-door meeting of the UNSC has been called to discuss an issue relating to Mali, an African country and China has made a request to discuss the Kashmir issue under the agenda of &#8220;Any Other Business Points&#8221;.<br \/>\nAsserting that France&#8217;s position has not changed and it is very clear that the Kashmir issue must be settled bilaterally (between India and Pakistan), French sources said this has been stated on several occasions, and it will continued to be reiterated to partners in the UN Security Council.<br \/>\nThis is the third time, China, Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;all-weather ally&#8217;, has demanded discussion on the Kashmir issue.<br \/>\nIn August, China pushed for a UNSC meeting on Kashmir after the government scrapped J-K&#8217;s special status. However, the meeting did not yielded desired results for China as the member-states maintained that India&#8217;s move was an internal issue.<br \/>\nLast month, France, the US, the UK and Russia had foiled an attempt by China to discuss Kashmir at a closed-door meeting of the UNSC.<br \/>\nChina has been critical of India&#8217;s reorganisation of J-K, and has particularly criticised New Delhi for making Ladakh a union territory. China lays claim over several parts of Ladakh. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan 15: China has demanded discussion on Kashmir during a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday. The current move by China is third such attempt since August when the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was scrapped by the government, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}