Washington (August 24, 2017): United States Department of State has said that in terms of Kashmir, their policy has not changed and added that they will continue to encourage India and Pakistan to sit down and talk together about that.
While addressing a press briefing at Washington DC, States Department’s spokeswoman Heather Nauert said, ” In terms of Kashmir, our policy on that has not changed.”
She said, “I think one of the things that we would do is ask or encourage India and Pakistan to sit down together and engage in direct dialogue that is aimed at reducing tensions between both of those countries.
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Nauert said,” I think going up to 30,000 feet, we view the whole strategy and handling Afghanistan as being a regional strategy, and that, of course, incorporates India as well as Pakistan, so incorporating all the nations in that region who can – we believe can help assist and help make Afghanistan a stable place where you’ll never have a terror group that will take root in that country again and can launch attacks on other countries.
While talking about erecting fence on Pak-Afghan border, she said that they will continue to support practical cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The spokeswoman further said,” I think our approach is for Afghanistan to have an Afghan-led peace process to be able to get to that point. One of the ways we believe that that point can – we can get to that point or that they can get to the point is through the assistance of regional partners, regional partners such as India. India has been very helpful. They’ve done a lot in terms of providing development funds to Afghanistan so far. We applaud them for that. They’ve pledged – I believe it’s about $3 billion since 2001. So we continue to thank them for that and look forward to them hopefully doing more to be a part of the solution. Pakistan as well – we want Pakistan to be able to do more.”
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