Voicing support: US lauds Aziz-Khurshid meeting

US voices support for important discussions between India, Pakistan.


APP September 16, 2013

WASHINGTON: As Pakistani and Indian prime ministers plan to meet in New York later this month, the US has voiced its support for high-level discussions between the two neighbours. “We would certainly encourage and we have encouraged further dialogue between India and Pakistan on a range of issues. We would welcome any and all high-level discussions,” State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said. Her remarks at the daily briefing came ahead of an expected meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New York later this month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. On Friday, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz and Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid met in Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation “I’m not going to get into the details of what those discussions might look like. That’s for India and Pakistan to talk about together,” she added.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th, 2013. 

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