WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is continuing “significant” discussions with Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on ways to achieve regional stability, the US State Department said on Saturday.
Assistant Secretary of State Philip J Crowley cited senior US officials’ continuing engagements with the regional governments towards the goal of cooperation and stability.
“We continue to have significant dialogue with the government of Pakistan, the government of India, [and] the government of Afghanistan about how we can have stability, dialogue and cooperation across the region,” Crowley said.
He was responding to a question about US Defence Secretary Robert Gates’s visit to South Asia.
“That is ultimately how, jointly, these countries together with the United States, together with the international community, will be able to stabilise the region and defeat and deter political extremists who threaten, in different ways, all three countries,” he said, adding that it was a common challenge, and “part of our ongoing dialogue with all three countries”. app