Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that Pakistan, which has been projecting itself as a facilitator, has in many ways been the cause of some of the problems that India is dealing with in its neighbourhood.
During the India-US bilateral meeting and the Quad summits of Australia, India, Japan and the US by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden, there was a clear sense of more careful scrutiny, scrutiny and monitoring of Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan. , he said, as the Indian delegation concluded its two-day hectic engagements in the city.
“There was a clear sense in both the bilateral discussions as well as the forum discussions that there was a more careful investigation and more careful investigation and monitoring of Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s role on the issue of terrorism had to be maintained, and it certainly did. Whether it is Quad or its other partners will have to keep an eye on that factor,” Shringla told reporters at a press conference here on Friday.
“An important factor that is sometimes overlooked is when you look at Pakistan as a facilitator protecting itself, whereas, it has in fact been in many ways a motivator of some of the problems that we face in our neighborhood and working outside of that,” he said. Said in response to a question.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his counterparts – Australia’s Scott Morrison and Japan’s Yoshihide Suga – on Friday attended the first in-person meeting of the Quad leaders hosted by US President Biden.
At the invitation of President Biden, Prime Minister Modi and his counterparts from Australia and Japan gathered in the US capital for the first-ever in-person Quad summit at the White House.
Modi also held his first bilateral meeting with US President Biden in the Oval Office of the White House. Biden, who welcomed Prime Minister Modi to the Oval Office, said he was starting a new chapter in US-India relations.
Shringla said that during bilateral discussions at the White House, clear concerns were expressed over Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan and its continued support for an approach that did not seem to be in line with the expectations of the international community of what a war-torn country should be. like.
During the meeting, both India and the United States agreed that the issue of terrorism is very important. He said both sides condemned any use of terrorist proxies and stressed the importance of denying military, financial or military aid to terrorist groups that could be used to plan or launch terrorist attacks. .
The leaders also noted that the US and India will hold a counter-terrorism Joint Working Group meeting designation talks and there is also going to be a renewed US India Homeland Security dialogue in the areas of law enforcement, they said.
Noting that there was a lot of discussion on Afghanistan, Shringla said that great importance is attached to the fact that UN resolution 2593 was adopted and India’s presidency of the Security Council was adopted.
He said this is an important resolution that reflects the general view of the international community on the situation in Afghanistan and the obligations of the ruling government there to meet certain conditions that the international community faces.
“Therefore, both sides underscored the importance of war and terrorism in Afghanistan. They called on the Taliban to abide by these and all its commitments under Resolution 2593. This clearly includes the issue of ensuring that Afghan territory is not used to threaten attack against any country, harbor any terrorist groups or finance terrorist attacks and underscore the importance of countering terrorism in Afghanistan,” he said.
Shringla said the two delegations also called on Afghanistan to respect the human rights of women, children, minorities, the provision of humanitarian aid and access to humanitarian workers.
He said he also called on both sides to ensure an inclusive political dialogue agreement in Afghanistan.
“It is an important issue. I think the fact is that the current ruling system did not seem to be an inclusive one, did not cover Afghanistan’s ethnic minorities to the extent that women were not involved,” he said.
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