“We’re in a better place,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated Tuesday, referring to the ongoing ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
“We hope the ceasefire will continue to hold, and we hope that the parties will use this to deal with a lot of the outstanding issues between them,” he stated at the briefing.
In response to a Palestinian journalist who criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for saying in his speech on Monday that the ceasefire is “very fragile,” Dujarric stated, “The ceasefire is holding.”
The writer also cited a Pakistani remark “to check this kind of tone by Indian Prime Minister” to support his claim.
Dujarric went on to say, “We’re in a better place than we were before.”
After a call from Pakistan’s Directorate General of Military Operations (DGMO) to its Indian equivalent, a truce was agreed upon on Saturday, ending four days of fighting.
In response to The Resistance Front, a branch of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, killing 26 people in Pahalgam last month, India initiated targeted attacks against terrorist facilities in Pakistan and the Kashmir area it controls last Wednesday.
Attacks on India by Islamabad caused the situation to worsen.
Guterres hailed the truce “as a positive step toward ending current hostilities and easing tensions” shortly after it was declared.
He urged moderation earlier as the conflict was intensifying, stating, “The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan.”
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