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Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on India-Pakistan
Statements | Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Statements | Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack that took place on a complex housing passengers for tomorrow's inaugural bus service between Muzzafarabad and Srinagar across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
The introduction of this land-mark bus service is a tangible achievement of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan. Its beneficiaries will be the people of Kashmir, who have been divided for decades and traumatized by violence. The Secretary-General commends the spirit of compromise demonstrated by both India and Pakistan in the course of negotiating this important confidence building measure. He hopes the bus service will begin as planned, and that it can help pave the way for additional confidence-building arrangements followed by substantive agreements on all outstanding issues, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.<