UNITED NATIONS - A UN spokesman said on Tuesday that the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which monitors the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, can only be terminated by the Security Council.Spokesman Martin Nesirky made the statement when he was asked about Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s position on India’s UN Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri’s remark during a Council debate on UN peacekeeping on Monday that the observer group had been “overtaken” by the 1972 Indo-Pakistan Simla agreement, suggesting that the mission should be wound up.Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan, on the other hand, said that UNMOGIP’s mandate remained “fully valid, relevant and operative.”Nesirky, the Secretary-General’s spokesman said, “The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) was established in 1948 by the Security Council. The Secretary-General’s position has always been that UNMOGIP can only be terminated by a decision of the Security Council.”

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