US not willing to play midwife between India, Pakistan

By NNN-PTI,

Washington : Firmly ruling out mediation between India and Pakistan, Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said the US would support the two countries if they decide to resume the talks but was not willing to play the “role of a midwife”.


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He also said Pakistan should not see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US as a “diminution of the importance we attach to them”.

Holbrooke said the US would support them if they decide to resume the talks but was “not willing to play the role of a midwife”.

His comments came hours before Singh was to meet President Barack Obama at the White House where the two leaders are expected to take their strategic relationship to a new level.

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