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Seventy-five years ago Seven principles

2023-02-12
LAKE SUCCESS: General McNaughton, President of the Security Council today [Feb 10] submitted to the Council a draft resolution which laid down seven principles for the settlement of the Kashmir dispute, which included provision for the holding of an impartial plebiscite under the authority of the UNO, the establishment of an interim Government and the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Kashmir.

The representatives of Argentina, France, Syria and Britain supported these principles. But the Chinese delegate, while admitting that the proposed plebiscite should be impartial, did not wish to see the idea of interim administration pushed. It was announced at the Council that India had nominated Czechoslovakia as her member on the Kashmir Commission. Mr Ayyangar ... said that at this stage India could not accept the proposal for the replacement of the Abdullah regime by an interim Government and the withdrawal of the Indian Army. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported from Sibi,] There are strong indications here that Kalat State will accede to the Dominion of Pakistan in the nearest future. News agencies