There is a dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir. Both countries claim this. The third country in this is China. India controls 45% of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan at 35% and China at 20%.

China has Aksai Chin and Trans Karakoram (Shaksgam Valley). Aksai Chin was taken under control of China by India in the 1962 war and Pakistan has given Trans Karakoram to China.

China does not agree with India's recent decision on Kashmir. When Pakistan took the matter to the UN Security Council, its permanent member China also got support. The friendship between China and Pakistan is well known and is also seen as a challenge for India.

On 16 August, there was an informal meeting on Kashmir between members of the Security Council. The meeting of the Security Council for Kashmir lasted for 90 minutes. Pakistan is calling this meeting its victory.

He says that no permanent member opposed this meeting and this is his big win.

A diplomat from CNN in New York has said that this was the lowest level meeting of the Security Council, in which a statement was not even released. Some people believed that any kind of statement would increase the tension.

But Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun issued a statement saying that the member countries are concerned about the human rights situation in Kashmir.

According to the CNN report, the meeting insisted that the matter be resolved through bilateral dialogue. India also talks about bilateral dialogue but Pakistan talks about the mediation of a third party.

After the removal of Article 370 from Kashmir, Pakistan wrote to the UN Security Council, after which the meeting took place.

After this meeting, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polianski, while speaking to reporters before the UNSC meeting, supported the bilateral talks on the subject of Kashmir.

He said, "We support bilateral talks between India and Pakistan on this issue. There has been no change in our stand on this issue. In this meeting we have come with the intention of sharing ideas."

When asked whether you do not think you have not addressed the issue in a long time, as the Council had spoken on it in 1971.

On this question, Dimitri said, "I was not even born in 1971. So I do not know about this. We will see."

This meeting took place in a closed room. Pakistan and India did not attend the meeting as these two countries are not members of the UN Security Council.

Earlier in December 1971, the issue of India-Pakistan reached the UN Security Council. When there was a war between the two countries over the creation of Bangladesh.

During the 1965 India-Pakistan war, the matter of both countries reached the United Nations. But this time in the year 2019, this meeting took place after writing Pakistan's letter. But it is not yet clearly known what the members of the UN Security Council said to India-Pakistan at that meeting.

No official statement has been released by the UN Security Council regarding this meeting yet. Since this meeting, India has been consistently emphasizing that the status of Jammu and Kashmir and the various aspects associated with it under Article 370 and 35A are internal affairs of India.

Syed Akbaruddin, India's ambassador to the United Nations, accused Pakistan and China that they were engaged in making this meeting a priority. Questions are arising about the current situation in the Kashmir Valley.

The Kashmir issue first came to the United Nations on January 1, 1948, at the request of India.

After the Kabali invasion in 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir signed a treaty of annexation with India. The Indian army arrived for help and there was a clash with the Pashtun Kabialis and the Pakistani Army.

India took this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where the first proposal came in 1948.

The proposal was number 38 on the UN Security Council list. This was followed by three more proposals in the same year as Proposition 39, Proposition 47 and Proposition 51.

On January 17, 1948, Proposition 38 appealed to both sides not to let the situation deteriorate further, for which both sides should try their best under their powers. It was also said that the President of the Security Council should call the representatives of India and Pakistan and hold direct talks on both sides under his guidance.

On 20 January 1948, in Resolution No 39, the Security Council decided to form a three-member commission, which decided to nominate one member each from India and Pakistan and one member from the elected members. This commission was ordered to check the facts immediately.

The war between India and Pakistan ended in 1947–48 with a ceasefire, but the solution to the Kashmir problem remained stuck. In January 1949, the UN Military Observer Group was sent to India and Pakistan. The group was to take stock of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

Complaints of a ceasefire were then received and a report was to be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Under the ceasefire, the two countries had to call back their troops and hold a referendum so that the people of Jammu and Kashmir could commit self-determination.

India's argument was that he did not have the entire Kashmir, so he could not hold a referendum. On the other hand, Pakistan did not follow the UN resolution and did not withdraw its troops. India argued that the UN resolution of 1948–49 had ceased to be relevant because control over the original geographical location of Jammu and Kashmir had changed. Pakistan had handed over a part of Kashmir to China and the demography in Kashmir under its control had also changed.

The Simla Agreement was signed in 1972 after the 1971 war between the armies of the two countries. In this, it was ensured that no third party, including the United Nations, would be allowed to negotiate the dispute related to Kashmir and the two countries would together settle the issue.

At that time Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India and the President of Pakistan was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The Government of India said that all the earlier agreements regarding the situation and dispute in Kashmir have been neutralized after the Shimla Agreement. It was also said that the Kashmir issue has now moved from the UN level to the level of bilateral issue.

Pakistan has said that it will review the Shimla Agreement. Will constitute a commission to review it.

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