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Fact Check: No emergency Security Council meeting on Kashmir crisis?

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August 16, 2019
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Fact Check: No emergency Security Council meeting on Kashmir crisis?

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet behind-closed-doors on Friday at the request of Pakistan and China to discuss India’s decision to revoke the special status of occupied Kashmir.

However, contrary to earlier reports, the meeting is not an “emergency session”, but a consultation, which is mostly informal, closed-door and does not allow the participation of non-members, lawyer Reema Omer tweeted.

Contrary to what we are being told by our media, there is no “emergency session” by the UN Security Council tomorrow on #Kashmir

What is scheduled is a “consultation” – which is mostly informal, closed-door, and does not allow for the participation of non-members pic.twitter.com/UTjxUhqHgL

— Reema Omer (@reema_omer) August 15, 2019

In letters to the UN secretary general and the UNSC rotating chair for the month of August, Poland, Islamabad had sought an open discussion at the top-decision making forum, with a personal pitch from Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz.

What Pakistan has been granted at the UN is a “consultation”, not an “open” or a “closed meeting”.

DIFFERENCE:

Both open and closed meetings are formal meetings of the UNSC. Closed meetings are not open to the public and no verbatim record of statements is kept, instead, the UNSC issues a press release.

Consultations, on the other hand, are informal meetings of the council members.

Clarifying the situation further, Reema tweeted:

Sure. But before assessing how much of a diplomatic success it is, important to first understand what is happening tomorrow and what the limitations of a consultation are. Exaggerating or misreporting it as an “emergency session” or a meeting of the Council doesn’t help anyone https://t.co/cApaoZnmEB

— Reema Omer (@reema_omer) August 15, 2019

While it is not a formal meeting, it is extremely rare for the UNSC to discuss Kashmir, which has been divided between Pakistan and India since independence from Britain in 1947.

The last time there was a full UNSC meeting on the Himalayan region was in 1965.

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