ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar Friday said people of Jammu and Kashmir should be given the right to self-determination according to the United Nations Security Council resolutions pending for the last many decades. In an interview with TRT World television, he said India could not change the demographics of Jammu and Kashmir by bringing in settlers. He said India took illegal and unilateral actions about Kashmir in 2019 contrary to the UN charter and decades old resolutions of the Security Council. The right to self-determination of people of Kashmir and Palestine should be respected, he asserted. He said Pakistan and Turkiye had very close brotherly relations for decades and leadership of the two countries always coordinated on issues of importance. Recently both sides held the 7th High Level Strategic Council meeting co-chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he said adding security and global challenges were discussed threadbare during the delegation level talks and dozens of memorandums of understanding were signed. The foreign ministers of the two countries would monitor the work of the 11 joint groups formed by the council in different areas and would report to the leadership for further consideration. Pakistan and Turkiye had very close cooperation in areas of trade, investment, defence, security, regional issues and anti-terrorism, he said adding both countries would be jointly building naval ships as part of their cooperation in the defence sector. He said the bilateral trade of the two countries was about one billion dollars and they had decided to increase trade volume to five billion dollars in the next five years.Talking about his recent participation in the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, he said the UNSC needed reforms because it was observed that the resolutions of the UNSC and General Assembly on Jammu and Kashmir and Palestine were not implemented for decades. He noted that the world order and the multilateral institutions had been weakening. He informed that during his remarks at the UNSC meeting he discussed the issues of Gaza, Kashmir and weakening of multilateral institutionsPakistan was ready to support the reforms agenda at the United Nations to make multilateral institutions more strong, effective and forceful so that peace, security and development in the world could be pursued, he remarked. The DPM said Pakistan was watching very closely the situation in Gaza for the last 18 months and it had opposed the forced migration of Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan. He said he talked to the foreign ministers of different Muslim countries and it was agreed that an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation would be held in Jeddah on March 7.