UN says ceasefire monitors safe amid India-Pakistan escalation
UN ceasefire monitors stationed in Kashmir and in the Pakistan-occupied areas are safe and accounted for following the Indian missile strikes on terror infrastructure and retaliatory shelling by Pakistan, according to a UN spokesperson.
“We checked with our colleagues in peacekeeping, and they said everybody was accounted for, and everybody was safe,” said Stephanie Tremblay , the Associate Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, on Wednesday.
Formally known as the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), the mission comprises 44 military personnel and 75 civilian staff deployed on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir.
Currently headed by Mexican Major General Ramon Guardado Sanchez, UNMOGIP has been monitoring the fragile ceasefire in Kashmir since 1949 under a UN Security Council mandate.
(DD News)
