Rice urges India not to destabilise region

[pkpatriotic]

Rice urges India not to destabilise region
Saturday, December 13, 2008

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that in her recent visit to India, she urged Indian leaders not to take actions that could destabilise the region.

“Anything that, in fact, would make the situation worse or might introduce unintended consequences is not going to be good for the stability of the region,” said Ms Rice. “It isn’t going to address what needs to be done, and that was also my message to India.”

Talking about her visit, Ms Rice told US television she talked with the Indians “about a response to the Mumbai attacks that would actually be commensurate with the goals. The goals are to bring the perpetrators to justice and to prevent a follow-on attack.”

She also urged Pakistan to ‘act forcefully’ to stem terror threats, although she acknowledged that the Pakistani government wanted to do the right things concerning terrorism.

She advised Pakistan to take at least some steps that might lead to those two goals, bringing the perpetrators to justice and getting India and Pakistan to cooperate to make certain that future attacks did not take place.

 

[rubyjackass]

Rice urges India not to destabilise region
Saturday, December 13, 2008

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that in her recent visit to India, she urged Indian leaders not to take actions that could destabilise the region.

“Anything that, in fact, would make the situation worse or might introduce unintended consequences is not going to be good for the stability of the region,” said Ms Rice. “It isn’t going to address what needs to be done, and that was also my message to India.”

Talking about her visit, Ms Rice told US television she talked with the Indians “about a response to the Mumbai attacks that would actually be commensurate with the goals. The goals are to bring the perpetrators to justice and to prevent a follow-on attack.”

She also urged Pakistan to ‘act forcefully’ to stem terror threats, although she acknowledged that the Pakistani government wanted to do the right things concerning terrorism.

She advised Pakistan to take at least some steps that might lead to those two goals, bringing the perpetrators to justice and getting India and Pakistan to cooperate to make certain that future attacks did not take place.

kindaa misleading title.
The title suggests a harsher tone than Rice's words indicated. And in the statement, there were 'urges' and advices to Pakistan as well.

 

[must7]

kindaa misleading title.
The title suggests a harsher tone than Rice's words indicated. And in the statement, there were 'urges' and advices to Pakistan as well.

You are talking about the title .. Majority of the times when it comes to Pakistan, Indian writers full post is misleading !

 

[Kharian_Beast]

kindaa misleading title.
The title suggests a harsher tone than Rice's words indicated. And in the statement, there were 'urges' and advices to Pakistan as well.

jackass sahib, sir :

“Anything that, in fact, would make the situation worse or might introduce unintended consequences is not going to be good for the stability of the region,” said Ms Rice.

She never said anything about Pakistan destabilizing the region, a big clue to any observer.

 

[Jihad]

I wonder what Hillary Clinton would do in order for this issue to be resolved?
We'll find out soon I guess.

 

[Incredible India]

Three-quarters of the most serious terror plots being investigated by UK authorities have links to Pakistan, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7782125.stm:

 

[pkpatriotic]

Remarks From Daughters and Sons Meeting with Q&A At The Council on Foreign Relations

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Washington, DC
December 17, 2008

MS. MITCHELL: Welcome. This is so wonderful for me to see all of you, many of you friends, many of you sons and daughters of friends. I am Andrea Mitchell from NBC News, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and you all know our very special guest, the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. And tonight is a very special evening for many reasons. We are hosting tonight at the Council two cabinet secretaries simultaneously. Bob Gates is in New York at a Sons and Daughters meeting, and concurrently, we have Secretary Rice here at a Daughters and Sons meeting. And it is also the last meeting to be held here because after this meeting, the Council is moving to our new building at 1777 F Street. So all this is very exciting. If anyone wants to help Kay and the great staff here packing and moving over the holidays? (Laughter.)

I should remind everyone to please turn off – and I mean completely off – all cell phones and Blackberries because they do interfere with the sound system. So if you don’t mind doing all that. And as a reminder, this meeting is very much on the record, so I also want to get all of you daughters and sons to think about your questions, because we’re going to have lots of time for you to ask questions of the Secretary. This is really your event and I am here really to just lay the groundwork, talk about some of your legacies and your thoughts after eight exciting years, and some years – sometimes too exciting, I suppose. (Laughter.) But obviously, the Secretary is working up until the very last minute as we can see from some of her most recent travels. So think about your questions and I’ll start off with a few of my own.

Let’s talk about the most recent events because of Mumbai and all of the other things that happened and the reaction, of course, from India to Pakistan. You had to extend your travel and talk to people in the region in both capitals. And as I think back to the way this Administration started with really conflict brewing over Kashmir, and I was traveling with Secretary Powell at the time, do you think that you, in your conversations, have managed to prevent further conflict there? And how do you see it going forward?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, the first point that I would make is it was obviously a very serious situation, and the President wanted me to go and to express our solidarity with India and condolences there, and to deliver a very strong message that, of course, Americans had also died in that attack. And so this was also of concern to the United States.

I found the fact that since 2001, which is the crisis that I also was a part of the management of that crisis, the United States has developed a very strong relationship with India. It has broadened and deepened, and I do think it has helped us through this crisis, because there’s a level of trust with India that I think was not there in 2001 when we had to get through the – really, the military mobilization that attended the crisis in Kashmir.

On the other hand, with Pakistan, we have a good relationship with the new civilian government. But there, the message had to be: you need to deal with the terrorism problem. And it’s not enough to say these are non-state actors. If they’re operating from Pakistani territory, then they have to be dealt with.

The good news is that I found on both sides a desire to actually work through the conflict. I don’t think anybody wanted to escalate it. No one was speaking in belligerent language. And if Pakistan continues to do – work to really deal with the terrorism problem, and if India can do the hard work of both helping to bring the perpetrators to justice and trying to prevent the next attack, then I think we can get through this crisis.

MS. MITCHELL: Do you have a feeling that the civilian government in Pakistan has control over the military, over the security forces, over the ISI?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, I have to say that I didn’t hear a different line from the military and from the civilians. In fact, I heard from the military that they want the civilian government to succeed. They recognize that the civilian government has to therefore be the responsible entity for Pakistan. And I’m certain that there are and will be civil-military tension. It’s a new civilian government just finding its footing in Pakistan. But it seemed to me that the civilians were very much in charge and making decisions. And thus far, we’ve seen some positive steps, though they’re not nearly enough to this point.

 

[Nodata]

Three-quarters of the most serious terror plots being investigated by UK authorities have links to Pakistan, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7782125.stm:

Now the figure is 4/5th

 

[salarsikander]

Now the figure is 4/5th

Get a life jerk. Opening up 9 year old thread. You seem worried