UNITED NATIONS - Reiterating its determination to seek a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute, Pakistan on Tuesday urged India to resume the suspended composite dialogue aimed at promoting durable peace in the Sub-continent. 'Pakistan remains steadfast in seeking a just and peaceful resolution to the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions, Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon told the UN Security Council in an open debate on mediation and pacific settlement of disputes. 'We hope that India would agree to the resumption of the composite dialogue process between our two countries, he added. 'We hope that the international community, particularly the Security Council and the Secretary-General will support this objective of durable peace and progress in our region. While regretting that the Security Council resolutions on Kashmir remained unimplemented to date, he called on the 15-member council to make wider and more effective use of the procedures and means of resolving disputes provided to it by the UN Charter, including mediation. Commenting on Secretary-Generals report on the subject of the debate, he said his delegation considered the UN chiefs emphasis on early engagement and on processes addressing the root causes of conflicts was among the key lessons learned from the Organisations past engagements. Strengthening and making full use of the comparative advantages of regional, national and local capacities for conflict prevention, mediation, reconciliation and dialogue were also critical in the wider effort, he added. The need for professional mediation capacity was, as the report pointed out, also evident, he said. Haroon underlined that the effectiveness of mediation was more a function of political factors. 'The nature of two of the long-standing situations on the Councils agenda Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir were such that their continuance endangered international peace and security. In Palestine, he said the council had been unable to implement its own resolutions, thereby delivering a self-inflicted blow to its credibility. The Council, he said, did not need to be reminded that one of the earliest applications of Chapter VI of the Charter was in Jammu and Kashmir. (Chapter VI requires countries with disputes that could lead to war to first of all try to seek solutions through peaceful methods such as negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.). The Security Council, he said, had also instituted a number of other mechanisms including the United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan (UNCIP) and the deployment of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan and dispatched a number of representatives to consult on how to resolve the dispute according the Councils resolutions. 'Nevertheless, the Councils resolutions remained unimplemented. While hopes in bilateral negotiations likewise remained unfulfilled, Pakistan remained committed to resolving the dispute in accordance with the relevant councils resolutions, which provided that 'the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. To have a holistic view, he said the Security Council should review the extent to which the provisions under Chapter VI had been utilised and implemented.