Kashmir utmost important to Muslim Ummah', OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir Communique.

ISLAMABAD -- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)'s Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir on Monday said the question of Kashmir was of utmost importance for Muslim Ummah and called upon its member states to raise the dispute in their bilateral engagements with India.

The communique issued by the Foreign Ministers' of OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir after the Emergency Virtual Meeting stressed that the OIC member countries must take up the issue with India with a view to 'safeguarding the fundamental human rights of Kashmiri people in Indian Occupied Kashmir and ensuring expeditious implementation of the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions'.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu, Azerbaijan's FM Elmar Mammadyarov, FM of Niger KallaAnkourao, OIC Secretary General Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen and Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan attended the video meeting.

As per the communique, the ministerial meeting asked the OIC General Secretariat and its affiliated, specialized and subsidiary organs to take necessary measures to ensure implementation of OIC resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir.

The OIC Secretary General was urged upon to highlight the worsening situation in IOJ and K at various international fora including the United Nations and called for immediate steps for amelioration of the humanitarian situation and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.

The meeting expressed deep concern over the worsening human rights and humanitarian situation in IOJ and K since India's illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019.

The OIC foreign ministers urged upon India to rescind its unilateral and illegal actions, and allow the Kashmiri people to freely exercise their right to self-determination through a UN-supervised plebiscite.

It asked India to stop indiscriminate use of force, including the...