WASHINGTON: Republican Senator J. Gordon Humphrey, has asked President Bush to send a special envoy to India and Pakistani to discuss a “time table for a plebiscite,” on Kashmir.
The Humphrey statement follows assistant secretary of state John Kelly’s declaration that the U.S. will no longer urge a UN plebiscite.
Humphrey said “the groundwork laid by the United Nations four decades ago is sound.
Nevertheless it has never been implemented. But history has caught up with Kashmir. Efforts to suppress the Kashmir movement will only delay the inevitable at a cost in human lives and perhaps international conflict,” the statement said.
“I urge President Bush to consider naming a special envoy for Kashmir to initiate a political dialogue to implement the U.N. plebiscite promised 40 years ago,” Humphrey said.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 23, 1990
