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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (231163)3/25/2003 8:44:10 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (3) of 436258
 
India to US: You can’t bomb Iraq and then ask us to talk to Pak
20.33 IST 25th Mar 2003

By IndiaExpress Bureau

India on Tuesday virtually told the United States, which called for resumption of talks with Pakistan, to stop preaching peace.

The External Affairs Ministry spokesman said in New Delhi: "If dialogue per se is more critical than combating international terrorism with all necessary means, then one can legitimately ask why both in Afghanistan and Iraq military action instead of dialogue has been resorted to," External Affairs Ministry spokesman told reporters.

He was alluding to the remarks made by US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher in Washington that "violence will not solve Kashmir's problems. Dialogue remains a critical element in the normalization of relations between India and Pakistan."

The MEA spokesman said: "We see the call for dialogue by the US State Department spokesman as inappropriate in the context of the heinous terrorist crime in J and K.

"It regrettably shifts the focus from the basic problem between India and Pakistan. The problem is not lack of dialogue but continued sponsorship of terrorism by Pakistan which is being overlooked."

Boucher had earlier said "the cowardly attack appears aimed at disrupting the bold efforts of the Kashmir state government led by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed to restore peace and religious harmony to the troubled state".
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"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
-Dubya
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