OIC Contact Group urges India to reverse its illegal actions in IIOJK

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NEW YORK: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation Contact Group on Kashmir while expressing solidarity with the oppressed people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir called upon India to revoke its August 5, 22019’s illegal actions in the occupied territory.
The OIC Contact Group in it its declaration issued at its meeting in New York on Wednesday also called for implementation of the UN resolutions to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
The Contact Group rejected the illegal and unilateral actions taken by India on August 5, 2019 and subsequent steps to change the internationally recognized disputed status of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and to alter the demographic structure of the occupied territory, said a joint communiqué issued after a meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir. The group reaffirmed its support to the inalienable right to self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the recognized OIC position and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
The foreign ministers of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir met on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. The Secretary-General of the OIC chaired the meeting. “Declared that the final settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions and a UN supervised plebiscite, is indispensable for durable peace and stability in South Asia,” the communiqué said.
It denounced India’s illegal and unilateral actions and subsequent steps which were in direct violation of UNSC resolutions and were aimed at changing the demographic structure of IIOJK, preventing the realization of the inalienable right to self- determination of the Kashmiris.