Pakistan highest foreign policy priority: US
Robert Blake, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia is one of America's ablest and most sensible diplomats. - Here is an excellent Blake interview with Pakistan's DAWN Newspaper.
DAWN -- PAKISTANI NEWSPAPER
Pakistan highest foreign policy priority: US
By Anwar Iqbal
Saturday, 15 Aug, 2009 | 07:06 AM PST
WASHINGTON, Aug 14: Pakistan is America’s highest foreign policy priority and the Obama administration is willing to provide whatever security and economic assistance it needs, says Robert Blake, the new US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian affairs.
In an interview to Dawn newspaper and TV, Mr Blake, who looks after US relations with both India and Pakistan, also emphasised India’s importance in the administration’s new policy for the region, noting that New Delhi was “playing a very important role” in Afghanistan.
Mr Blake made it obvious that the US strongly backed the Indian demand for punishing the Mumbai terror suspects.
Pakistan, he said, would have to punish the suspects and stop cross-border terrorist attacks if it wanted the resumption of bilateral talks with India.
Mr Blake also said he believed India and Pakistan were not ready to discuss the Kashmir issue now when they were busy fighting extremists.
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