US envoy entitled to his opinion on ties with India: MEA
India on Friday sought to play down US Ambassador Eric Garcetti's comments that there is no such thing as strategic autonomy following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Russia.
India on Friday sought to play down US Ambassador Eric Garcetti's comments that there is no such thing as strategic autonomy following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Russia.
It is after a gap of more than two years that the US will have a full-fledged envoy at the embassy in India.
Blome referred PoK as "Azad Jammu and Kashmir", which is against to the Indian stand as the region was forcibly occupied by Pakistan in 1947.
Seoul hopes to use the declaration as a stepping stone to improve cross-border relations and achieve lasting peace on the peninsula.
What happens in Afghanistan remains of global consequence and the Security Council needs to be fully informed of the gravity of the present situation, said Deborah Lyons, top UN envoy for Afghanistan
The US Department of State also issued a statement reiterating its commitment to the political settlement in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the US envoy to Israel said that Israel’s plans to annex West Bank was not “off the table”.
The intra-Afghan talks which were slated to begin on March 10 in Oslo were delayed because of the issues over the timing of the Taliban prisoner release.
The US-Taliban deal signed in Qatar on February 29 calls for the release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners to open the way for intra-Afghan negotiations.
Pompeo and Ghani agreed to work on the details of the peace process in the coming days, with the Afghan government in particular emphasizing the undeclared ceasefire mechanism that sets out the rules of the game, he added.
