UNSC President Poland favours dialogue between India, Pak over Kashmir

Poland, President of the UN Security Council for the month of August, on Tuesday said it hopes India and Pakistan can work out a "mutually beneficially solution bilaterally and favours dialogue between the two nations to sort out their differences after New Delhi revoked the special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Poland's Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz is in the UN headquarters and addressed a Security Council briefing Tuesday on 'International humanitarian law - Seventieth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions: upholding humanity in modern conflict.'
"We expressed concerns over current tensions between India and Pakistan resulting from the proposed changed status of Jammu and Kashmir. Poland believes that the dispute can only be resolved by peaceful means and here we fully support the reaction of the European Union and statement issued by Federica Mogherini. We are in favour of dialogue between Pakistan and India to sort out the differences."
Mogherini is the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission. In a statement on the situation in Kashmir, she said, "The European Union supports a bilateral political solution between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, which remains the only way to solve a long-lasting dispute that causes instability and insecurity in the region."
"I think that the Security Council will discuss that issue and take proper decision."
Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing last week that the Secretary General has been following the situation in Jammu and Kashmir "with concern and makes an appeal for maximum restraint."