On Wednesday, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its concerns regarding the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold India’s revocation of Article 370, which guaranteed special status to the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The top Indian court recently ruled that Article 370, revoked by India on August 5, 2019, was a temporary provision and that the occupied territory was an integral part of the country.
Despite this ruling, the OIC General Secretariat reiterated its call to reverse all illegal and unilateral measures taken by India since August 5, 2019, aiming to change the internationally recognized disputed status of the territory.
In a statement on Twitter, the OIC expressed its concern over the Indian Supreme Court’s judgment and shared the decisions and resolutions of the Islamic Summit and the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers on the issue of IIOJK.
The General Secretariat reaffirmed its solidarity with the people of IIOJK in their pursuit of the right to self-determination and called on the international community to increase efforts to resolve the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The Modi government had revoked Article 370 in 2019, stripping significant autonomy from IIOJK. The recent court ruling upheld the decision to abrogate the disputed region’s semi-autonomous status, stating that IIOJK “does not have internal sovereignty” and directing elections to be conducted in the region by September 2024.
