Pakistan has rejected Presidential and Parliamentary elections those were held in occupied territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, EDNews.net reports citing Dispatch News Desk (DND) News Agency from Islamabad.

Pakistan called elections a clear violation of international norms and a clear breach of international law and UN Security Council resolutions.

Responding a question here on Thursday during weekly briefing at Foreign Office of Pakistan, the Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that Presidential and Parliamentary elections held on 31 March 2020 in Nagorno-Karabakh, occupied territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is (was) a clear violation of international norms.

“The election constitutes a clear breach of international law and UN Security Council resolutions. It is taken as an attempt by Armenia to hamper the ongoing negotiation process for finding lasting solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through peaceful means. Pakistan reaffirms its principled position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and reiterates its support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” she commented.

Responding another question regarding situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir after outbreak of Covid-19, she said that Pakistan has consistently maintained that the international community needs to intervene to address the dire health and human rights emergency in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IOJ&K) as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

“In this regard the Foreign Minister has also written a letter to the President of the UN Security Council urging the Council to play its role in lifting of communication and other blockades in IOJ&K and discussed the matter in his telephone calls with the UN Secretary General and several of his counterparts for Kashmiris’ right to unfettered access to medical and other essential supplies. Amnesty International has made a similar call to the Indian government to immediately restore full internet services to the Kashmiri people so that people in the region have full access to health- and safety-related information. We have always called for the need for international observers and Human Rights organizations to be given access to IOJK to assess the true situation on the ground there’” concluded Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui.