UN Chief Calls For “Most Restraint” After Pahalgam Terror Assault
United Nations:
United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres calls on India and Pakistan to train “most restraint” to forestall additional deterioration of the tense scenario within the subcontinent after a terrorist assault in Kashmir, his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric mentioned on Thursday.
“We very a lot attraction to each the governments of Pakistan and India to train most restraint, and to make sure that the scenario and the developments we have seen don’t deteriorate any additional,” he mentioned, whereas reiterating the condemnation of terrorist assault that killed a minimum of 26 folks in Pahalgam on Tuesday.
“We had been very clear in our condemnation of the fear assault that occurred in Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
“Any points between Pakistan and India, we consider will be and must be resolved peacefully by significant mutual engagement,” he mentioned.
A entrance organisation of the internationally banned Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba has taken duty for the assault during which principally vacationers had been massacred.
India took motion towards Pakistan, expelling diplomats, cancelling some visas for one another’s residents, and shutting down commerce, and Islamabad has retaliated in form.
Requested about India suspending the Indus Water Treaty on sharing the river’s sources, Dujarric mentioned, “This is able to go beneath the rubric of us interesting for optimum restraint and never taking any actions that might deteriorate the scenario additional or enhance tensions in a tense space.”
He mentioned that Guterres has not had any direct contact with the leaders of India and Pakistan because the assault.
US President Donald Trump took to X and wrote: “The US stands robust with India towards terrorism. Prime Minister Modi, and the folks of India, have our full help and deepest sympathies.”
French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X: “A heinous terrorist assault has struck India. We share the profound sorrow of the victims’ households, to whom I lengthen my heartfelt condolences.”
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer mentioned: “The horrific terrorist assault in Kashmir… is completely devastating.”
Qatar’s Overseas Ministry mentioned: “The State of Qatar expresses its robust condemnation and denunciation of the assault… The Ministry extends its condolences to the households of the victims and to the federal government and other people of India.”
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