WASHINGTON – The United States Secretary of state has revealed thebackground contacts with Pakistan and India.
US is trying to find a common ground between India and Pakistan, USSecretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, describing Kashmir as along-standing battle between the two South Asian neighbours.
Pompeo cited the India-Pak dispute and the Israeli conflict as recentexamples of America’s negotiating diplomatic skills, about which he wasasked at the “Future Farmers of America” event in Iowa on Monday.
“How do you try to find a common ground, negotiate on behalf of the UnitedStates?,” the top American diplomat was asked.”So if you take a look at themost complex problems — what’s a good example?
The debate to try to figure out how to get Middle East peace between theIsraelis and the Palestinians, or in the news recently, the longstandingbattle in Kashmir between the Indians and the Pakistanis.
The work that we do as diplomats is to try and find places where there’scommon ground,” Pompeo told farmers.
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“There are places where there’s — you all do this too in your everydaylife. There are clearly things that are different. In some cases, you seevalue sets that are different. In some cases, there are territorialdisputes.
In some cases, the arguments arise out of faith. Sometimes they’re fightingover resources, right, not just land, but wealth, whether that’s oilunderground or natural gas or water, whatever it may be,” he said.
America’s effort, he said, was to figure out the places where there was areal overlap. “And then it is to convince those — sometimes we’re in themiddle of it, sometimes we’re just trying to help bring resolution to aproblem or to reduce violence in a particular conflict — it’s to make thecase that nobody’s going to get everything,” he said.
