January 5, 2025, Right of Self-Determination Day underscores the unfulfilled promise of freedom for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Despite global recognition of their rights, Kashmir remains under illegal occupation, demanding urgent international action for a just resolution.
The commemoration of January 5, 2025, the Right of Self-Determination Day, is a somber reminder that the promise of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir remains unfulfilled.
The UN Charter established the current world order. It seeks to develop “friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of peoples”. The right of peoples to self-determination was affirmed in common Article II of the Covenants on Civil and Political and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in the Declaration on Decolonization, and in the Declaratio...
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Ambassador Munir Akram