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Implement resolutions on Kashmir too, Sattar tells UN

Pakistan has asked the United Nations to avoid double standards in implementing its resolutions on Afghanistan and Kashmir saying the world body should follow 'one standard and one yardstick' in enforcing the same.

"The UN has not implemented clear and specific resolutions on Kashmir. Pakistan believes the world body should be strengthened so that it could implement its resolutions," Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar told reporters at Lahore on Thursday night after his arrival from Doha where he attended a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC).

Sattar was speaking in the context of the 'full implementation' of the UN resolutions adopted on September 12 resulting in the US and other countries building an international coalition against terrorism.

"UN should have 'one standard and one yardstick' in implementing its resolutions," he insisted.

"Pakistan has made it clear that double-standards will not be acceptable. If the UN is to succeed in safeguarding the international peace, it must follow its charter," he said.

"The UN would have to follow the logic of its charter which is to settle disputes peacefully in order to prevent wars. The solutions to the problems should be in conformity with the principles of justice and international law," Sattar was quoted by the media in Islamabad as saying.

On evolving a proper definition of terrorism, he said UN members had been pondering on the issue while trying to frame a proper definition. Pakistan was also contributing to the debate, he added.

Sattar said, "The world will have to determine one definition of terrorism based on certain principles acceptable to all the countries".

He said that no single country would be allowed to construe terrorism in a perspective that suited it.

Replying to statements made by Indian leaders on the developments in Pakistan, Sattar said Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had telephoned Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and made it clear that India should not feel threatened by any development.

PTI

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