UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (APP):United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued an urgent appeal to India and Pakistan for "maximum restraint" in the wake of the airspace violations by Indian war planes along the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday, his spokesman said. "The Secretary-General is closely following the situation," Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in response to a question at the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York."He …
UN chief urgently appeals to India, Pakistan for restraint following Indian war planes’ violations of LoC
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (APP):United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued an urgent appeal to India and Pakistan for “maximum restraint” in the wake of the airspace violations by Indian war planes along the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday, his spokesman said.
“The Secretary-General is closely following the situation,” Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in response to a question at the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.”He (UN chief) reiterates his urgent appeal to both the Governments of India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint to ensure that the situation does not further deteriorate,” the spokesman added.
The secretary-general is on his way back home from Geneva.
Replying to a question about Indian claims of heavy casualties on the Pakistani side, he said that UN had nothing on it.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi delivered Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General at his office. Guterres is due to return to New York this evening.
The Pakistani envoy is also circulating to the UN member states OIC’s condemnation of airspace violations along the LoC by Indian war planes.
