Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Indian Government on respect for human rights in Indian-administered Kashmir; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of any such discussions.
I refer my hon. Friend to the response the Minister of State, my noble Friend, the right hon. Lord Howell of Guildford, gave in the other place to an oral question on
We recognise there are human rights concerns in both Indian and Pakistan-administered Kashmir and we followed the widely reported violent unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir last year. During a recent visit to Indian administered Kashmir, officials from our high commission in New Delhi discussed the issue of detentions with the Jammu and Kashmir state police and human rights groups. The issue of security legislation operating in certain regions of India, was raised with the Indian Government during the recent EU-India Human Rights dialogue.
We are closely following the work of the three interlocutors to help resolve the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir. We continue to call for an improvement in the human rights situation on both sides of the Line of Control and for an end to external support for violence in Kashmir. Officials in our high commissions in Islamabad and New Delhi regularly discuss India-Pakistan relations, including Kashmir with their counterparts in both countries.
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