Mirwaiz for intense, true parleys for Kashmir solution

Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said he favoured intense but transparent negotiations with both India and Pakistan to find an amicable solution to the Kashmir problem.
"We're open to all options available on Kashmir... We do firmly believe in achieving not what you deserve but what you are able to negotiate", said Hurriyat Chief according to an Indian Daily.
Mirwaiz said he would visit Belfast in the first week of September this year to study the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, mediated by the United States, under which new bodies were created for self-rule in Northern Ireland and what impact it actually had on the ground situation in the area. The trip was being organised by the British Foreign Office and a local group, the Paper said.
Mirwaiz, who was responding to questions at an interactive session organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Held Srinagar, asserted that Kashmir was a human issue with numerous dimensions, including political.
"We stand for resolving it as per the aspirations of the people of all the five regions of the state," he expressed, adding that the status quo would lead India nowhere and hence it should give up rigidity and show flexibility. He reiterated that the Hurriyat Conference was ready to discuss various out-of-the-box options.
He further said: "We're more than willing to discuss all available options to arrive at a negotiated settlement, but no solution within the framework of the Indian Constitution is acceptable, nor would we settle on the division of the state. The status quo too does not fall in our scheme of things because it is in nobody's interest."
"As far as the relevant resolutions on Kashmir adopted by the UN Security Council from time to time, I'm not any hopeful. You see, the UN has failed to deliver on Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and on other conflicts," he said, and suggested that the people of Jammu and Kashmir should look beyond the UN now.
At the second session of the interaction, Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani presented a "vision statement", in which he urged the people of Kashmir to unite against Indian occupation.
Replying to various queries, senior Hurriyat leader said that he was ready to talk to the Centre if it accepted Kashmir as a dispute. "Let India accept Kashmir as a dispute, and I will talk to them," he said.