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| India-Pakistan |
| Russia sez India has right to respond to attacks |
| 2002-05-20 |
| Moscow has backed New Delhi's legitimate right for a fitting response to terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and has urged the US to press Pakistan to fulfil its promise for a crackdown on militants on its soil. In a telephonic conversation with US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Ivanov expressed concern over the heightened tension between India and Pakistan following the Kaluchak massacre, a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said. Earlier, on Friday the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko, publicly upheld India's 'absolutely just and legitimate right' for action against terrorism in the wake of Kaluchak carnage and promised Moscow's help to New Delhi in anti-terror combat. Yakovenko, however, had said that an 'open war' was highly undesirable due to its security and stability consequences extending beyond the regional boundaries. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |