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Don't compare India with Pakistan: US
WASHINGTON: The United States has rejected the notion that the civilian nuclear deal with India is going to spur a nuclear arms race in South Asia while stressing that Washington has different but singularly important relationships with both New Delhi and Islamabad.
"No, we don't expect that to be the case and we hope that's not going to be the case," US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told reporters in response to a query.
He said the United States has singularly important relationships with both countries, but they are very different. "The relationship with India is based on this extraordinary growth of trade and investment between our private sectors. The fact that India has the greatest number of students here, 75-80,000, and the fact that we are going to do things with India - civil nuclear trade, democracy promotion worldwide, HIV/AIDS cooperation --that are going to be unique," he added.
Pakistan, he said, was the most indispensable country in Washington's goal of fighting Al-Qaida. "I testified on Pakistan the other day and said Pakistan was the most indispensable country in the entire world to the United States in our number one global priority, fighting Al-Qaida, fighting the Taliban, fighting radical extremist terrorists groups."And so that relationship rests on that kind of cooperation which is very important to the internal stability of Pakistan and of Afghanistan," the senior State Department official maintained.
The senior State Department official said the US is going to proceed with very strong relationships with both countries and both countries are going to look to the United States in different ways. "And I think it's important to mention that as a way to answer your question, because obviously Pakistan has a past, in terms of nuclear proliferation which, with the AQ Khan network, was very troubling.
India has a very different past, and therefore we construct a different future on that basis, on that particular activity, civil nuclear cooperation," Burns added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dia_with_Pakistan_US_/articleshow/2240305.cms
WASHINGTON: The United States has rejected the notion that the civilian nuclear deal with India is going to spur a nuclear arms race in South Asia while stressing that Washington has different but singularly important relationships with both New Delhi and Islamabad.
"No, we don't expect that to be the case and we hope that's not going to be the case," US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told reporters in response to a query.
He said the United States has singularly important relationships with both countries, but they are very different. "The relationship with India is based on this extraordinary growth of trade and investment between our private sectors. The fact that India has the greatest number of students here, 75-80,000, and the fact that we are going to do things with India - civil nuclear trade, democracy promotion worldwide, HIV/AIDS cooperation --that are going to be unique," he added.
Pakistan, he said, was the most indispensable country in Washington's goal of fighting Al-Qaida. "I testified on Pakistan the other day and said Pakistan was the most indispensable country in the entire world to the United States in our number one global priority, fighting Al-Qaida, fighting the Taliban, fighting radical extremist terrorists groups."And so that relationship rests on that kind of cooperation which is very important to the internal stability of Pakistan and of Afghanistan," the senior State Department official maintained.
The senior State Department official said the US is going to proceed with very strong relationships with both countries and both countries are going to look to the United States in different ways. "And I think it's important to mention that as a way to answer your question, because obviously Pakistan has a past, in terms of nuclear proliferation which, with the AQ Khan network, was very troubling.
India has a very different past, and therefore we construct a different future on that basis, on that particular activity, civil nuclear cooperation," Burns added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dia_with_Pakistan_US_/articleshow/2240305.cms
