TRUMPH Says Kashmir is a Bilateral Issue between India & Pakistan Ruling Out Third Party Intervention
TRUMPH Says Kashmir is a Bilateral Issue between India
& Pakistan Ruling Out Third Party InterventionREJECTING Pakistan Prime
Minister Imran Khan’s request for meditation between India and his
country on Kashmir issue, POTUS Donald John Trump on Monday, August
26,agreed that Kashmir is a bilateral issue. At a meet with
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Group of
7 nations in France he announced
the decision awaited post abrogation of special status from Jammu &
Kashmir and integrating it with India under its Constitution & under one
national flag. Hope India and Pakistan will surely sort out differences, Trump said.Modi
is a great leader, he said. Their meet was focused on trade and
energy. I Think India and Pakistan can surely resolve the
bilateral issues themselves, Trump said adding both India and Pakistan are
” US’ great friends”. The 45th G -7 Summit was hosted by France at
Biarritz. This was their first face to face interaction between PM Modi
and Trump after the removal of special status from Jammu & Kashmir.
They had earlier telephonic conversations on the issue.POTUS is being urged by
Pakistan for mediation between Islamabad and New Delhi to resolve the issue.
India has repeatedly intimated United States and other nations through
diplomatic channels that Kashmir is a bilateral issue and hence, it is opposed
to involvement of any third party.Earlier, PM Modi had interactions with UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres, his British counterpart Boris Johnson &
other world leaders on the sidelines of the Summit of the Group of seven
nations. These bilateral informal meets are significant post integration
of Jammu & Kashmir with the rest of India. Though India is not a
member of the G- grouping, PM Modi has been specially invited by French President Emmanuel
Marcon hosting the event. The G-7 members are France, Germany, Italy,
Japan,
United States of America, Canada and The United
Kingdom. Of them, three nations are empowered with veto power as UNSC’s
permanent members. Russia and China are two other UNSC Members with the same
Brahmastra. Russia and France have made
it public like US that Kashmir issue should be settled bilaterally by New Delhi
and Islamabad and POTUS Donald Trump had reportedly said he was ready for
mediation if the concerned two nations agreed. Needles to add internationally
cornered Pakistan had urged POTUS for intervention even after India asked US to
keep off saying Kashmir is part and parcel of India. India’s Ministry for
External Affairs says the invitation extended by the French President Macron to
PM Modi was the reflection of their personal chemistry besides recognizing
India as a major power. Meanwhile, acknowledged Dalit leader Mayawati heading
Bahujan Samaj Party has defended the abrogation of Article 370 saying it
was also the wish of Dr BR Ambedkar, the father of Indian Constitution (edited
by Pranab Kumar Chakravarty)