5+Australia

Committee 5 Patrick Nguyen Period 0 Australia

__**A Brief Background of the Topic:**__ The countries of Jammu and Kashmir first began when the Britain did not know what to do with the Indian Territory. Britain then divided the land into Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir and Jammu had problems when they had issues on deciding which religion to choose and what country they were to be with. Kashmir decided to go with India and the main religion was Hinduism. Jammu sided with Pakistan and their main religion became Muslim. Because Jammu and Kashmir believed in different religion they started a war because of the rising of many issues. India and Pakistan have had the Indo-Pakistan wars because Pakistan supported a Muslim insurgency into India's Kashmir. Pakistan and India has another war called the second Indo-Pakistan war when Pakistan launched a covert offensive to Kashmir. The Indo-Pakistran wars resolved when the UN decided to make them sign a treaty. The agreement broke when west and East Pakistan began fighting and ten million refuges from East Pakistran ran fled to India. India then invaded and liberated East Pakistan and the war caused huge problems for both India and Pakistran. In the end Pakistan and India have never reached an agreement. The United Nations, India, Pakistan, and South Asia are deeply affected by this issue. This issue does not have a major impact on the international community because most countries do not have this problem. That still does not mean that not doing anything is okay.

The United Nations have made the Indo-Pakistan wars stop and they made India and Pakistan reach to an agreement, but none of their help is working. India and Pakistan are constantly attacking each other and have still not reached an agreement. The United Nations have been on the Jammu and Kashmir issue since 1940 and currently the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan are involved in the Line of Control between India and Pakistan. The Security Council of the UN have also forbiddened the use of nuclear tests of both countries. The United Nations are now trying to make the countires sign a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty. The United Nations also wants to demilitarilize the regions of Jammu and Kashmir.
 * United Nations Involvement:**

Although, Australia is not involved in this issue, we thought the United Nations are doing a good job in helping India and Pakistan resolve the issue.
 * Country Policy and Involvement:**

Australia would like to see the Jammu and Kashmir have friendlier relationships. To solve this issue we thought demilitarizing Jammu and Kashmir would be useful because it would stop nuclear weapon production, make Jammu and Kashmir people feel more comfortable with each other, the regions will have less deaths, and it will save lots of money. Another way of solving this issue is by have representatives of Jammu and Kashmir and make them know the opposite regions language because it will better relations between both countries.
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