Erdogan takes seemingly neutral stance in mentioning Kashmir at UNGA

United Nations: Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brought up Kashmir in his address to the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, taking a seemingly neutral stance, only expressing hope for permanent peace there.
India and Pakistan, he said, “after having established their sovereignty and Independence 75 years ago, still haven’t established peace and solidarity between one another and this is much unfortunate”.
“We hope and pray that fair and permanent peace and prosperity will be established in Kashmir,” he added, avoiding internationalising it by even invoking UN resolutions.
The statement is closer to India’s stance that Kashmir is a bilateral issue because of the 1972 Simla agreement between the two countries and there is no room for a third party involvement.
India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, is scheduled to meet Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu later on Tuesday.
Erdogan’s latest statement, unlike last year, did not mention UN resolutions on Kashmir, which India has said are irrelevant because of the commitment to bilateral solutions.