Envoys From 16 Nations To Visit Kashmir Today To Assess Ground Situation, EU To Skip Trip indiatoday.in

Sixteen envoys will be visiting Kashmir on Thursday where they will meet civil society members, and be briefed on the security situation there. The envoys are mostly from Latin American and African countries. Meanwhile, the European Union country envoys have conveyed to the Centre that they will visit the UT on a separate date and insisted on meeting the prominent leaders of the region who are still under detention including former Chief Ministers, Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti.

The envoys visiting on Thursday will also go to Jammu, where they will meet Lt Governor GC Murmu and other officials before returning to Delhi on Friday. The visit comes five months after Article 370 was struck down by the government of India and union territories were carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. According to sources, the visit is arranged after a number of countries had requested the government of India to organise a visit of Kashmir for them so that they could get the first-hand report of the situation on the ground following the abrogation of Article 370.