Hope all countries cooperate with Human Rights Council: UN official

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' deputy spokesman Farhan Haq's remarks came in response to a question on Pakistan's comments that it was ready to facilitate the Commission of Inquiry as proposed in a recent UN report to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir if India gives a similar access to the UN team to Jammu and Kashmir. 

" we're always pleased when countries cooperate with the Human Rights Council and give access to human rights rapporteurs and we hope that all countries would do so," Haq told reporters during a press briefing on Friday.

Earlier this month, the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released its first-ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and demanded an international probe into it.

India has rejected the UN report, terming it as "fallacious, tendentious and motivated and a selective compilation of largely unverified information.

Last week, the US quit the UN Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias" that targets Israel disproportionately while ignoring atrocities in other countries.