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| No comparison between J&K and Tibet | | Foreign Policy -- I | | RUSTAM
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 21: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit New Delhi on December 15 and 16 and, in New Delhi, he would do this and he would do that. He would assure India that the projects on the Brahmaputra are run-of-the-river projects and that Beijing would make a categorical commitment that it would not use these projects for storing or diverting water. Jiabao came to New Delhi and met with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, but the former did not give the latter any assurance. Jiabao left Singh high and dry.
Jiabao would visit New Delhi and address India's key concerns - J&K is an integral part of India, stapled visa to the people of J&K and terrorism emanating from Pakistan - and support the Indian bid for a United Nations Security Council permanent seat. Jiabao came to New Delhi and met with Prime Minister Singh, but he did not address these Indian concerns. He did not endorse the Indian view that J&K was an integral part of India. Nor did he agree to the suggestion that the practice of issuing stapled visa to the people of J&K be abandoned. In fact, his response was quite negative.
Nor did he agree to mention Pakistan in the joint communique as far as the issue of terrorism emanating from the Pakistani soil was concerned. The fact of the matter is that the Chinese Premier did not get into specific terror incidents. From the Indian point of view, the "distance China covers on terrorism is crucial marker for the relationship as this is a matter of international concern and not just a bilateral issue." He did not even say that perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks be brought to justice as had been done by other P-5 countries.
It would not be out of place to mention here that almost all the countries across the globe have condemned the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. The Indo-US joint statement issued during the US President Barack Hussein Obama's visit had emphasized the need to defeat Lashkar-e-Toiba and destroy the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan. Similarly, the Indo-French and the Indo-European Union statements had called for bringing to justice the perpetrators, accomplices and authors of the dreaded 26/11 attacks that had led to brutal killings of more than 160 innocent persons, including a few foreigners. That Jiabao overlooked such international support to what was among the most dreaded and roundly condemned terror attacks and did not share the Indian concerns in this regard speaks for itself as well as the utter failure of the Indian Foreign Office.
Nor did Jiabao indicate the Beijing's intention of supporting the Indian claim to a permanent seat in the Security Council. And, all this, despite the impression created by Foreign Minister SM Krishna and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao just a month before the visit of the Chinese Premier November.
It may be recalled that on November 14, Foreign Minister Krishna had met his Chinese counterpart Yang Jeichi at Wuhan (China) and urged Beijing to support the Indian quest for a permanent seat in the Security Council and address its concerns over stapled visas to people of J&K. So much so, he had expressed hope that Beijing "would be sensitive to our concerns on this very vital issue (J&K) for India, just as we have been sensitive to the Chinese concerns, for instance on the Tibet Autonomous region and Taiwan." China considers Tibet and Taiwan part of its territory. (To be continued) |
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