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| US Senate panel set thinking a new | | Kashmir not America's issue to resolve: Biden | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, DEC. 3
Indian Embassy in Washington has just informed the government of India that the imcoming chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has created history of sorts by making it public that Kashmir is not an issue that is "ours to solve".
The incoming chairman of the US panel is Senator Joseph Biden. In a media interview in Washington, Biden was asked if on taking over the chairmanship of the committee next month he would advocate that Washington use its good offices to solve the Kashmir dispute.
Joseph Biden's reported reply: He would not bring the Kashmir question up without consultation with India first. Biden was quoted as saying: "I don't think we can determine--we the United States-- (how it should be resolved)".
At the same time, Joseph Biden said that the United States should use what positive pressures it could to move in the direction in which Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was moving. Biden was also reported to have said that the US should "get some accommodation, but that (issue) in not ours to resolve."
On the US having made India an exception to the nonproliferation regime by signing a nuclear cooperation deal with New Delhi, Biden said: "I am most often asked, 'Well, why India and not Pakistan and Iran?' and I say, 'What do you mean, why India? Number one, India has been a partner and not promoting proliferation.
Pakistan and AQ Khan, according to Biden, have done more damage to the world than any single country (without starting a) war. Biden's observations were loaded with pro-India accent.
For example, he let it be known that India lives in a very tough neighbourhood. "So the idea that India, with China to its north and Pakistan to its west, would not become a nuclear power is just not a reasonable expectation", Biden said. |
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