US has no plans for special Kashmir envoy
July 16th, 2009 - 12:55 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Washington, July 15 (IANS) The US Wednesday assured India that it has no plans to appoint a special envoy for Kashmir as it considers it to be a matter between New Delhi and Islamabad.
“I can assure you that we are not going to appoint a special Kashmir envoy,” Assistant Secretary for South Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake told reporters ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to India.
“This is long standing US policy that this is a matter that needs to be worked between India and Pakistan,” he said in reply to a question. “We don’t have plans to appoint an envoy.”
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