02071949--77 Text of the Letter dated 2 July 1949 from the Chairman of the Commission Mr. Leguizamon addressed the Governments of India and Pakistan inviting military representatives to a joint meeting in Karachi (UN Document No. S/A.C. 12/224)
02071949--77 Text of the Letter dated 2 July 1949 from the Chairman of the Commission Mr. Leguizamon addressed the Governments of India and Pakistan inviting military representatives to a joint meeting in Karachi (UN Document No. S/A.C. 12/224)
As your Government is aware, the Commission has made repeated efforts to establish a cease-fire line in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, mutually agreed upon by the Governments of Pakistan and India, and based on the factual positions at the moment of the cease-fire on I January 1949.
It has been the Commission's hope that the joint meeting of the Commanders-in-Chief of Pakistan and India on 15 January 1949, which offered promise of success in the settlement of the numerous matters which arose as a result of the cease-fire, would be the first of a series of similar conferences. The joint meetings held in New Delhi in March of this year under the auspices of the Commission's Truce Subcommittee were an attempt to take advantage of the manifest benefits of such meetings as a means of reaching agreement on military questions.
The demarcation of a line is an urgent necessity. Further, the cease-fire line is a complement of the suspension of hostilities, which falls within the provisions of part I of the resolution of 13 August 1948, and can be considered separately from the questions relating to part II of the same resolution.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission invites your Government to send fully authorized military representatives to meet jointly with those of India [Pakistan] in Karachi, under the auspices of the Commission's Truce Sub-committee. The first of these proposed meetings, if suitable to your Government, might be held on Monday, 11 July.
The meetings will be for military purposes; political issues will not be considered. They will be conducted without prejudice to negotiations concerning the truce agreement.
The cease-fire line proposed by the Commission in its letter of 28 April 1949 (annexes 22, 23), and completed by the Commission's Military Adviser as envisaged in part I of the Commission's truce terms of 28 April (annex 21), will be the basis of discussion.
The Commission proposes these meetings in the hope that the discussions between the military representatives will result in an agreed cease-fire line.
(Signed) C. A. Leguizamon