The Security Council and Kashmir
27 Pages Posted: 15 Jul 2011 Last revised: 27 Jan 2014
Date Written: December 1, 2013
Abstract
The dispute between Pakistan and India over Kashmir was one of the first situations addressed by the United Nations Security Council following the founding of the United Nations in 1946. The Kashmir situation was the subject of eighteen Security Council resolutions between 1948 and 1971. Still unresolved, the situation remains on the Security Council’s agenda to the present day. This early and lengthy Security Council involvement in Kashmir provides a prime opportunity to study the relationship between the parties to the dispute and the Security Council, and manner in which the latter has exercised its powers under the Charter of the United Nations. This paper examines how the Kashmir dispute was handled in the Security Council. It analyzes the Council’s approach and assess the impact of several features of this approach on the dispute and on the Council.
Keywords: United Nations, Security Council, India, Pakistan, Kashmir
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