The United States shares good relationships with India and Pakistan and does not want to see a “war of words” but a constructive dialogue between the two countries.
“The fact that we have partnerships with both countries makes us – of course leaves us not wanting to see a war of words between India and Pakistan. We would like to see constructive dialogue between India and Pakistan. We think that is for the betterment of the Pakistani people, for the Indian people. There is much work that we can do together bilaterally,” US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price responded to a question over Pakistan Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari derogatory remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the regular briefing.
He also said that US have a global strategic partnership with India and relations between New Delhi and Islamabad in America’s mind is not zero-sum and the country does not view them in relation to one another.
“We have a global strategic partnership with India. I have just spoken to the depth of our partnership with Pakistan. These relationships stand on their own; it is not zero-sum. We see the importance – the indispensability really – of maintaining valuable partnerships with both our Indian and our Pakistani friends. Each of these relationships is – we don’t view them in relation to the other. Each of these relationships also happens to be multifaceted,” Price said.
He further stated, “So even as we deepen our global strategic partnership with India, we are also – we also have a relationship in which we can be candid and frank with one another. Where we have disagreements or concerns, we voice those just as we would with our Pakistani friends as well.”
The statement came in the backdop of derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari during a press conference at the United Nations in New York.