Pakistan has called on the United Nations to push for a peaceful settlement of lingering Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Security Council resolutions and Kashmiri people’s wishes.

Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the world body in New York, Munir Akram told the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee that since 1946, 80 former colonies have gained independence but there are still peoples who are denied the right to self-determination, most prominently the people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir and Palestine.

He said the right to self-determination of Kashmiri people was explicitly recognized in UNSC resolution 47 and several subsequent resolutions, which prescribed that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir should be decided by its people through a free and fair plebiscite held under UN auspices.

On Palestine issue, Munir Akram said durable peace in the Middle East can only be achieved through the two-state solution and the establishment of State of Palestine, with the pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.