UN Documents for Jammu and Kashmir: Security Council Resolutions

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21 April 1948 S/RES/47 This resolution enlarged the membership of UNCIP and recommended measures that would bring about a cessation of the fighting and create the proper conditions for a free and impartial plebiscite to decide whether the State of Jammu and Kashmir would accede to India or Pakistan.
20 January 1948 S/RES/39 This resolution set up the UN Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) to investigate the dispute between the two countries over Kashmir and exercise “mediatory influence”.
17 January 1948 S/RES/38 This was the first resolution on the India-Pakistan Question, which called on India and Pakistan to take measures to improve the situation in Kashmir and to refrain from doing anything that would aggravate it.