By IRNA,
Srinagar, India : Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is leaving for New York to attend the meeting of OIC Contact Group on Kashmir.
He will also be meeting the newly elected Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, who will be chairing the contact groups
extraordinary meeting.
The meeting of OIC Contact Group on Kashmir is being held on the sidelines of the OIC foreign ministers’ meet in New York scheduled to be held from September 24 to 26 at the beginning of the annual session of the United Nations general assembly.
The OIC’s contact group on Kashmir is holding a key meeting during the foreign ministers’ conference in New York and it assumes significance in the backdrop of President Zardari’s recent remark that a ‘good news’ on Kashmir is in the offing.
A Hurriyat Conference spokesman here said that it would be an extra-ordinary session as the Pakistani president will also arrive in New York for the inaugural meeting of the UN general assembly, and the Mirwaiz would represent the people of Kashmir during deliberations on certain concrete proposals on resolving the Kashmir issue.
It is not yet clear whether authorities will allow Mirwaiz, who remains under house arrest in Srinagar, to travel abroad.
The spokesman said that the details were being worked out to ensure the Hurriyat chairman’s timely departure.
“Though the Hurriyat has been attending the OIC foreign ministers’ meet for several years, the conference has assumed added importance this year in view of the massive and peaceful movement launched by the Kashmiri people recently who have given the world body a memorandum to find a solution to the Kashmir issue,” the spokesman said.
“Obviously, the participation of the Hurriyat has become extremely crucial to shake the international conscience into action,” he said.