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| Did erstwhile USSR ditch India in UN? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 20: On April 21, 1948, the UN Security Council passed a resolution seeking measures for settling the Kashmir dispute. Surprisingly, the USSR did not participate in voting. Had USSR exercised its veto, the resolution would have been blocked. This was not the first time when USSR abstained from voting. The former superpower did not try to block the resolutions. The UN passed as many as 20 resolutions urging both India and Pakistan to settle the issue through an impartial plebiscite. The process of passing resolutions continued upto December 31, 1971.
India remained USSR’s most trusted ally till its disintegration. On the other hand USA took active part in deliberations and also mustered support from member countries in favour of resolutions.
Shockingly nobody has ever made a mention of the `dubious’ role played by the USSR during those crucial years. Was it a failure of New Delhi’s foreign policy or the result of an understanding between the two `trusted friends’?
Nehru was severely criticized for taking the Kashmir dispute to United Nations on January 1, 1948. Kashmir experts say Nehru knew the UN will only delay the issue. Today Nehru stands vindicate but only partially. There is no denying the fact that the UN failed to settle the dispute for the past six decades. But, according to separatists, the world body has kept the issue alive through its resolutions.
The separatists treat the resolutions like divine verses. The resolutions, according to them, not only made Kashmir an international dispute but provide enough justification for the continuance of their movement. “The dispute is on UN agenda. and any dispute that is on UN agenda cannot be an internal affair of a country that happens to be a member of the world body”, said an activist. Whom should New Delhi blame for this? Nehru, USSR or both?
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