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The basic points about the UN resolution are that:
The complaint relating to Kashmir was initiated by India in the Security Council;
The Council explicitly and by implications, rejected
India's claim that Kashmir is legally Indian territory;
The resolutions established self-determination as the governing principal for the settlement of the Kashmir dispute. This is the world body's commitment to the people of Kashmir;
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The resolutions endorsed a binding agreement between India and Pakistan reached through the mediation of UNCIP, that a plebiscite would be held, under agreed and specified conditions.
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The Security Council has rejected the Indian contention that the people of Kashmir have exercised their right of self-determination by participating in the "election" which India has from time to time organized in the Held Kashmir.
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The 0.2% turn out during the 1989 "elections" was the most recent clear repudiation of the Indian claim.
Pakistan continues to adhere to the UN resolutions. These are binding also on India.
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The Simla Agreement of 2 July 1972, to which Pakistan also continues to adhere, did not alter the status of Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory:
Para 6 of the Agreement lists “a final settlement of Jammu and Kashmir"
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as one of the outstanding questions awaiting a settlement.
Para 4 (ii) talks of a "Line of Control" as distinguished from an international border. Furthermore, it explicitly protects "the recognized position of either side.
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" The recognized position of Pakistan is the one, which is recognized by the United Nations and the World Community in general.
Article 1(iv) obviously refers to the Kashmir issue when it talks of
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"the basic issues and causes of conflict which have bedeviled the relations between the two countries for the last 25 years"
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