Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis came on a day US President Donald Trump seemed to issue\na qualified offer to mediate between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir\ndispute, though he seemed to be stepping back from his earlier position that\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jaishankar\u2019s meeting with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo\ntook place on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations\n(Asean)\u2003Regional Forum, East\u2003Asia Summit and other meetings in Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHave conveyed to American counterpart @SecPompeo this\nmorning in clear terms that any discussion on Kashmir, if at all warranted,\nwill only be with Pakistan and only bilaterally,” Jaishankar said in a\npost on Twitter on the second meeting between the two. \u201cWide ranging\ndiscussions with @SecPompeo on regional issues,” Jaishankar said in\nanother post, along with a picture of the two shaking hands in Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jaishankar\u2019s comments follow last month\u2019s controversy which\nerupted after Trump claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sought his\nmediation on the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan, something the Indian foreign\nministry and the US state department later denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A US state department statement on Friday said: \u201cThe two\ndiscussed our shared commitment to upholding the rule of law, freedom of\nnavigation, and democratic values in the Indo-Pacific region. The secretary\nreaffirmed the positive trajectory of the US-India strategic partnership.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Trump on Friday seemed to give the controversy a new\nlease of life. Answering a question from a reporter at the White House about\nhis earlier offer to mediate on the Kashmir issue, Trump said: \u201cIf they wanted\nsomebody to intervene and I spoke to Pakistan about that\u2026 I spoke frankly with\nIndia about it\u2026 if they wanted me to I would certainly intervene.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s latest comment was different from his statement on\n22 July when he said that Modi, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20\nsummit in Osaka, had sought US mediation or arbitration on Kashmir. The fact\nthat Trump had made the offer in public was seen as a major step away from the\nUS\u2019s established stand of viewing the Kashmir dispute as a bilateral issue\nbetween India and Pakistan. It also seemed contrary to the US\u2019s position that\nNew Delhi is being seen as its \u201cnatural” strategic partner, given the\nrapidly warming ties over the past two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India has always sought bilateral talks with Pakistan to\nsort out the Kashmir dispute, though Islamabad has been keen to seek outside\nintervention, calling on mediation by the UN, the US and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon after Trump\u2019s earlier offer in the presence of Pakistan\nPrime Minister Imran Khan, Jaishankar had said that Modi had not made any such\nrequest to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US state department, too, had issued a clarification\nstating the Kashmir dispute was a \u201cbilateral” issue between India and\nPakistan , and the US \u201cwelcomes” the two countries \u201csitting down” for\ntalks. Later that week, Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said\nNew Delhi wanted to \u201cmove on” from the controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt (India-US relationship) is an extremely important\nrelationship. What I am trying to tell you is that our position in this matter\nhas been explained… We have broad and deep convergences across a range of\nissues. It is a full service relationship. We have excellent trade and\ninvestment linkages. In the area of defence cooperation we are moving towards\ndefence technology tie-ups. So, there are plenty of things on the table,”\nKumar had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Indian ambassador to the US Arun Singh was of the\nview that Trump\u2019s remarks on Kashmir were \u201cclearly a transactional ploy”\nto get \u201cmore cooperation from Pakistan in the context of the Taliban in\nAfghanistan”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was referring to the US looking to Pakistan for help to\nconclude a peace deal in Afghanistan that would allow American troops to exit\nthe war-torn country after 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt (Trump\u2019s offers for mediation) will achieve nothing\nmore, if even that. India\u2019s position has been firm and consistent in rejecting\nany third-party role in Kashmir,” Singh added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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