Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brought up the Kashmir issue again at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday calling it a “burning issue”.
He criticised the abolition of the special status of Kashmir last year saying that steps taken after it “further complicated the problem”.
“The Kashmir conflict which is also key to the stability and peace of South Asia is still a burning issue,” he said.
“We are in favour of solving this issue through dialogue within the framework of the United Nations resolutions, especially in line with the expectations of the people of Kashmir,” he added.
Erdogan avoided naming India directly, while he had named countries in many of the conflicts from Azerbaijan to Armenia that he spoke about.
At last year’s high-level meeting of the General Assembly, only Erdogan and Mahatir Mohammed, the then-Prime Minister of Malaysia, joined Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to talk about Kashmir.