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| India unwilling to accept any role for UNMOG officials because of their biased stand on various issues | | Behind the veil | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 5 :-Despite the sermons from the United Nations India is not going to accept any major role in the Indo-Pak conflict on the border by the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG). India's plea is that UN peace keeping force is trying to adopt biased stand and whenever India has lodged a complain t with the UNMOG officials against Pakistan the officials do report to the UN headquarters blaming India for any ceasefire violations.
India has conveyed its reservation over the UN peace Keeping force on the plea that after the Simla agreement of 1972.After the agreement there is no role for the UNMOG.
Since the UNMOG officials have,in the past adopted pro-Pakistan stand in its reports to the U N headquarters Pakistan will gladly accept the role of the UNMOG in defusing the conflict.
A senior UN peacekeeping official has rejected assertion that missions such as the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) are doing nothing, saying they were valuable and performing on the basis of ground realities in "frozen conflict" areas.
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita was asked during a press briefing here about "frozen conflicts" where peacekeeping missions stay forever. She was asked about missions such as UNMOGIP, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golaan Heights and that these missions are "sitting there doing nothing". India maintains that UNMOGIP has "outlived its relevance" after the Simla Agreement was signed by India and Pakistan in July 1972 and the consequent establishment of the LoC.
Keita was asked how these frozen conflicts can be addressed and mandates reactivated to achieve results.The question that should be asked is "if they were not there, what would happen," Keita said.She said the "rhetoric that because there is no peace process moving then they are doing nothing, I would say that we would need to reframe this because all the reduction of violence, which can escalate actually, they are dealt with by the peacekeepers, by the mission." These UN peacekeeping missions have their value and they are "rendering and performing on the basis of what is going on there.
The missions are "frozen because of the dynamics that are going on at the local, regional, sub-regional (levels), which have to do with politics and the mission is a tool at one point to support the political process. Ways would have to be found to right the underlying causes of the conflict and "not what I will call sometime using the mission as a scapegoat because it is a shared responsibility so the performance of the mission has to be looked at with the performance of all the stakeholders." The UN has long maintained an institutional presence in the contested area between India and Pakistan. According to the Security Council mandate given in resolution 307 of 1971, UNMOGIP observes and reports on ceasefire violations along and across the Line of Control and the working boundary between the two countries in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as reports developments that could lead to ceasefire violations. Despite the presence of the UNMOG officials Pakistan continues to resort to ceasefire violations and since India does not report these issues to the UNMOG officials its troops retaliate effectively. The tension is building and the UNMOG officials are yet to succeed in organizing a bilateral dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad. |
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