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| US support for India adds to complexity: Pakistan |
| 2010-11-09 |
[Geo TV] Pakistain on Monday said US President Barack B.O.Obama's endorsement of India's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council would add to the "complexity" of efforts to revamp the world body's most powerful organ. Yep. Tightened the old turban right up. In a statement issued shortly after Obama backed India's efforts to get permanent membership of the UN Security Council during an address to Indian Parliament, Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said that the US should revisit its stance and "take a moral view" instead of basing itself on "any temporary expediency". "If they can be on the Security Council why can't we?" "Pakistain believes that US endorsement of India's bid for its permanent seat in the Security Council adds to the complexity of the process of reforms of the Council," the Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said in a statement. "Pakistain hopes that the United States, which contributed immensely to the founding of the UN system and, in particular, its Charter Principles, will take a moral view and not base itself on any temporary expediency or exigencies of power politics," it added. The statement also said that despite India's aspirations "for recognition as a global power", there were "reasons enough to discredit this proposed direction of the process of UNSC reforms such as India's conduct in relations with its neighbours and its continued flagrant violations of Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir". Noting Obama's expression of support for a permanent seat for India in any reformed Security Council, he pointed out that the US itself "has acknowledged that UN Security Council reform is a difficult process and will take significant time". Pakistain's position on UN Security Council reforms is based on principles, the front man said. "Any reform of the Council that contradicts the very fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the principle of sovereign equality, of equal rights and self-determination, and the principle of collective security, would gravely undermine the system of international relations based on the UN Charter principles," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Good analysis of the India visit here: http://blog.american.com/?p=22343 |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-09 08:45 |
| #5 Looks like Zero is following W's lead correctly on one more significant issue. He's not doing too badly on the WoT front; India is important in many more ways though. Much as we ridicule the Administration's excesses and idiocies on the big State visit to India, it is still a correct and important thing to do. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-09 08:16 |
| #4 The US PENTAGON > says that KABUL = AFGHANISTAN should be ready to handle their own domestic security, including for anti-Insurgency/Terrorism, come Year 2014. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-09 02:26 |
| #3 ION "COMPLEXITY" WAFF > XI JINPING: CHINA'S HEIR APPARENT, to HU JINTAO. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIA + CHINA JOIN AGZ JAPAN FOR DOMINANCE IN THE PACIFIC. ARTIC = Moscow + Beijing desire to ELIMINATE JAPAN'S INFLUENCE, CONTROL OR ISOLATE THAT OF THE US. * SAME > THE LESSONS THAT CHINA CAN LEARN FROM JAPAN: CHINESE GLOBAL BRANDS IS 10 YEARS OFF: EX-SONY CHIEF [Nobuyaki Idel]. ARTIC = CHINA must Must MUST M-U-S-T go through + learn, etc. what what JAPAN did 20-30 years ago as per the LEARNING, OPER CURVES PERTINENT TO INDUSTRY + GLOBALIZATION, ESPEC IFF CHINA HOPES TO SUCCESSFULLY MODERNIZE AND BECOME A TRUE GLOBAL POWER. IOW, "NO PAIN, NO GAIN" + "NO EASY WAY TO DO IT". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-09 01:48 |
| #2 WAFF > {Strategypage] TERRORIZED TERRORISTS RUN FOR COVER. * BHARAT RAKSHAK/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TRIBALS JOIN HANDS WID ARMY [Govt]. The US Drone strikes are bad enough, but the Hard Boyz fear being hunted down andor turned in by hostile Locals. VERSUS * DAILY TIMES.PK > US CONCERNS GROW AS MILITANTS [PRO-AQ HAQQANI Network] MOVE BASES ALONG PAKISTAN BORDER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-09 01:37 |
| #1 Was that a "you can be replaced" I heard? |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-11-09 01:22 |