UN has asked India, Pakistan to exercise restraint and resolve their differences peacefully.
Concerned over the tensions across the Line of Control (LoC), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's top aide has asked India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and resolve their differences peacefully.
In the wake of the surgical strikes conducted by India targeting seven terror launch pads across the LoC, Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the UN is "obviously following this situation with great concern" relating to the increase of tensions across the LoC.
"The UN Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan, UNMOGIP, is aware of the ceasefire violations and right now is liaising with the concerned authorities to obtain further information," he told reporters yesterday.
He said the United Nations calls on the governments of India and Pakistan to "exercise restraint and encourages them to continue their effort to resolve their differences peacefully and through dialogue."
When asked about the SAARC summit, which was slated to be held in Islamabad in November, Dujarric said he "had not seen the reports of the cancellation of the SAARC summit."
India has said it will not participate in the summit citing the continuous cross-border terrorism by Pakistan.
After India's announcement, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan too decided not to participate in the summit, citing incitement of terror in the region.
The seven terror launch pads across the LoC were targeted by the Army on the intervening night of September 28 and 29.
The strike came days after the attack by Pakistan-based terrorists on an Indian Army camp in Uri in which 18 soldiers were killed.