Obama rollback on Kashmir?
The Barack Obama government-in-waiting has quietly rolled back its campaign talk about a more active US role in the Kashmir peace process.
New talking points issued in the past two weeks for the president-elect and his officials state India and Pakistan need to solve the Kashmir problem “bilaterally” and that they will have full US “support” in this effort.
However, the points, which were approved by Obama’s senior foreign policy team, did not make a decision on whether the appointment of a special envoy on Kashmir would be good or bad, said Teresita Schaffer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who has seen the document.
In an interview in Time magazine in October, Obama said Kashmir was a place he wanted to “devote serious diplomatic resources to get a special envoy in there, to figure out a plausible approach”. He felt there was “a moment where potentially we could get” the attention of India and Pakistan.
Obama said he had spoken with Bill Clinton about this issue over lunch. During the campaign, Obama repeatedly spoke of a more active Kashmir policy. This was the first time he had spoken of an envoy…
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15 November 2008 3:58pm - Entertainment ||
