Prime Minister Boris Johnson additionally made a reference to Britain’s colonial historical past within the area.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday stated in Parliament that the UK’s long-standing stance of Kashmir being a bilateral concern between India and Pakistan stays unchanged though the scenario within the Valley is of “profound” concern to the nation.
Boris Johnson’s assertion got here within the backdrop of the two-day journey of 23 members of European Parliament to Jammu and Kashmir to evaluate the scenario.
The visiting EU parliamentarians on Wednesday termed the dilution of Article 370 an inside concern of India and stated they stand by the nation in its battle in opposition to terrorism.
Prime Minister Johnson — addressing a query from Conservative Occasion MP Steve Baker over the past Prime Minister’s Questions session earlier than Parliament is dissolved this week forward of the December 12 normal elections — additionally made a reference to Britain’s colonial historical past within the area which made it extra necessary for it to not intervene by prescribing any options.
“The welfare of communities in Kashmir is of profound concern to the UK authorities,” he instructed MPs within the Home of Commons.
“It’s the long-standing place of the UK authorities that the disaster in Kashmir is essentially a matter for India and Pakistan to resolve. And it’s not – alas, since we have been there on the very starting – it’s not for us because the UK to prescribe an answer in that dispute,” Johnson stated.
Baker, MP for Wycombe in south-east England with a big Kashmiri-origin inhabitants, has been among the many vocal British MPs because the Indian authorities’s revocation of the Article 370 provisions withdrawing the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir.
He stated: “Hundreds of British individuals in Wycombe have household and mates on one or each side of the Line of Management in Kashmir. With so many severe allegations of human rights abuses being made, does the federal government settle for that this isn’t merely some overseas coverage concern to be handled by others, however that it is a matter of probably the most and profound concern in Wycombe and in cities throughout the UK?”
Johnson’s response follows Overseas Secretary Dominic Raab’s assertion to the Commons final month when he stated that the UK authorities needed all allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir because the revocation of Article 370 to be “completely, promptly and transparently” investigated.
“We’re conscious of the implications of the revocation of Article 370. It has precipitated curiosity and concern not simply inside India and Pakistan however amongst communities all through the UK and internationally. It’s a bilateral concern for India and Pakistan however it’s also a world concern, given the human rights at stake,” Raab had stated.
India abrogated some provisions of the Article 370 in August, bifurcating the state into two union territories.
The UK has maintained that it helps a bilateral decision between India and Pakistan as recognised within the UN Safety Council resolutions and the Simla Settlement.
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