India asks UN team on Kashmir to leave Delhi

India asks United Nations military observer group on Kashmir to vacate govt-provided bungalow in New Delhi.


Reuters July 09, 2014

NEW DELHI: India has asked a United Nations military observer group on Kashmir to vacate a government-provided bungalow in New Delhi.

New Delhi considers Kashmir as an integral part of the country and has bristled against external involvement in the region including the UN Military Observers Group on India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).

The Indian foreign ministry said on Tuesday the government had asked UNMOGIP to hand over the Delhi premises from where it was running a liaison office for more than four decades for free.

“We have said that as far as we are concerned the UNMOGIP has outlived its relevance,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said.

UNMOGIP said it had received the request in May when India was in the midst of an election.

No reasons were given for vacating the office, Major Nicholas Diaz, in charge of the Delhi office said. He said the observers group would continue to operate in line with the UN mandate and that it was looking at alternative accommodation.


Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2014.

COMMENTS (43)

Syed Jalal Kashmiri | 9 years ago | Reply

We need more international observers in Kashmir, not New Deheli to monitor human rights abuses of Indian extremists and Indian soldiers against Kashmiri civilians only on the basis of their religion. Pakistani and Muslim nations observers should be allowed into Indian Kashmir to monitor the situation.

You cannot hide the truth of injustice forever.

Surjit Dhiman | 9 years ago | Reply

Is this the same UN whose first order to Pakistan & its Jihadis was to vacate Kashmir but Pakistan never obeyed? The UN is useless, kick them out of the country.

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