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Powell to take up Indo-Pak issue after Iraq
March 31, 2003 09:36 IST
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he hopes to take up the Indo-Pak issue once the Iraq crisis is over.
In an interview to New York Times, he said the "Indo-Pakistan and the whole subcontinent problem" was part of the "broader agenda" that the US plans to go back to after Iraq.
"(We want to) make sure we don't find ourselves in the same situation we were in a year ago. When everybody was predicting war, we managed to solve that. People forget. If we had had a nuclear war, they wouldn't have forgotten it, but we didn't have one so they forgot it.
"A hell of a lot of work" went into preventing an Indo-Pakistan nuclear war," Powell said.
"We have to reach out. We have to spend more time," he said adding that once the Iraq crisis is resolved, "it frees us to engage in ways that we have not been able to, say, in the last six to eight months."
Powell said the "broader agenda we (US) will go back to" also included "work to cement the expansion of NATO even though we are not in the European Union."
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Sub: Discrimination
I had put together a nice little paean to Mr.Powell and his whatyamaycallits. Strangely I do not see it posted on Rediff. As your disclamers ...
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Sub: It is the world that has to be relieved and it is the US which has to be disarmed.
Has US ever brought peace? Always attempted only aggression. What right did the US have to attack Vietnam, station troops at Turkey, attack Iraq in ...
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Sub: powell's remarks
US has no business to interfere with the Indo-Pak issues. If the US really wants peace, let it put an end to its satanic acts ...
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Sub: Bush is affecting Colin
Looks like Colin has got this diease called as Bushitis. Making funny comments, talking funny things and ge around keeping asmirk on the face. Tell ...
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Sub: don't be a second binladen!!
weather it may be us or any other country...if they solve their crisis it will be good to them and if they tried to involve ...
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