24041958 Letter dated 24 April 1958 from the Representative of India Arthur S. Lall, to the President the Security Council

 Letter dated 24 April 1958 from the Representative of India Arthur S. Lall, to the President the Security Council

1. I am instructed by the Government of India to refer to the letter dated 28 March, 1958 from the representative of Pakistan to the President of the Security Council [S/3981] about certain administrative and audit arrangements in Jammu and Kashmir and to say that the Government of India are surprised at this further attempt by the Government of Pakistan to mislead the Security Council.

2. The State of Jammu and Kashmir had been an integral part of the Union of India since 26 October 1947, when it acceded to India. The accession took place in accordance with the procedures laid down in an act of the British Parliament, namely, the Government of India Act, 1935, as amended in 1947, which laid down the procedures to be adopted by the Governments concerned, viz, the Governments of the United Kingdom. India and Pakistan. The position that the State of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the Indian Union. has been the basis India's complaint to the Security Council and of the resolutions of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan dated 13 August, 1948 [S/1100, para, 751 and 5 January 1949 [S/1196, para. 15] and the assurances given by the Commission to the Prime Minister of India on behalf of the Security Council. The Government of Pakistan are also fully aware that the Government of India did not accept the resolutions of the Security Council dated 30 March 1951 [s/2017/Rev. I] and 24 January 1957 [S/3779], which have been quoted in the letter from the representative of Pakistan, and that the Governments of India and Pakistan have both accepted the resolution of the Security Council dated 17 January 1948 and that they are engaged by the two resolutions dated 13 August 1948 and 5 January 1949 of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan.

3. The Government of India have not violated any Security Council resolution that they have accepted nor have they repudiated any of their international engagements. The Government of Pakistan on the other hand have throughout the last ten years acted in violation of the resolution of the Security Council dated 17 January 1948 which they had accepted, and have failed to carry out their obligations under the resolutions of the Commission dated 13 August 1948 and 5 January 1949. They have consolidated their aggression on the Indian Union territory which they continue to occupy unlawfully, and have been committing further aggression by promoting subversion and by numerous acts of sabotage in Indian Union territory.

4. The Government of India take serious exception to this deliberate misrepresentation by the Government of Pakistan of measures taken in the normal course to secure administrative efficiency and proper audit control in the functioning of the Governments of the constituent States of the Indian Union. This attempt of the Government of Pakistan to seek to interfere in the internal affairs of the Union of India is obviously intended to cover up their continued violations of the resolutions of the Security Council and of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan and to confuse the basic issues in the Kashmir situation.

5. It is requested that this communication may kindly be brought to the notice of the members of the Security Council.

(Signed) ARTHUR S. LALL,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,

Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations

(Source: UN Document No. S/3994).