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Singh assures China, Pakistan on its US ties
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-21 09:19
WASHINGTON - Close India-U.S. ties will not come at the expense of
Pakistan or China, the Indian prime minister said on Wednesday at the end of a
Washington visit in which he won strong American endorsement of India as a
rising power.
Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh addresses a luncheon at the National Press Club in
Washington July 20, 2005. [Reuters] | But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan that the budding peace
process between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals would falter unless
Islamabad curbed attacks on India from Pakistani territory.
"I am convinced that an improvement in our relations with the United States
will also improve the chances of improving our relations both with Pakistan and
China," Singh told reporters.
"I don't think either Pakistan or China has to worry," he said, adding that
New Delhi has worked to resolve friction with Beijing and with Islamabad,
including border disputes.
In a warning to Pakistan, however, Singh pointed to what he said were
"disturbing" incursions into India by Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule
in Indian Kashmir, including a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday in Srinagar.
"If acts of terrorism are not under control, that certainly affects my
ability to push forward the process of normalizing relations with Pakistan," he
said.
Singh will go home having won a significant concession
from President Bush, who on Monday unveiled plans to change U.S. law and work
with allies to adjust international rules to allow nuclear technology trade with
India.
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