Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, seems willing to rebuild a strong relationship with the US putting behind past differences when he meets President Barack Obama, the White house has said.
“We do expect that we’d like to have a formal meeting with the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the near future. So it’s a matter of making sure that we can find an appropriate time for both leaders to come together,” White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes has said.
Obama had a “good set of discussions” on the phone with Sharif when the US President called him after his electoral victory, he said.
“I think our impression is that the Sharif Government wants to find a basis to rebuild a stronger US- Pakistan relationship, that they’re going to be very clear about what their interests are and when they have differences on some issues, but that we both still believe that our nations benefit when we can find ways to work together on issues related to counter-terrorism, on issues related to economic growth and development inside of Pakistan, but also on regional stability,” Rhodes said.
Rhodes, however, ruled out a meeting between Obama and Sharif on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York. Obama is scheduled to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Washington on September 27th. Indian and Pakistani premiers are expected to meet in New York later that weekend.
As the US looks toward the end of war in Afghanistan in 2014, the Obama Administration has made clear that one of the pillars of their strategy is regional stability, Rhodes said.
“We want to ensure that we’re enlisting Pakistan as a partner. But we also want to help ensure that Pakistan and Afghanistan are finding ways to bridge their mistrust and to build deeper cooperation, because, again, we believe that a strong and positive relationships between Pakistan and Afghanistan fill the interests of both countries and the United States as well,” the top Obama aide said.
By "strong" does he want Lockheed plant in Raiwind?
Nawaz Sharif 3rd time Prime Minister of Ir Pakistan wants strong relations with usa!
Dictatorship is still on its full swing in Pakistan, the army is making foreign policy and lobbying everywhere, they lobbied former dictatorship Musharraf, put him in heavenly house, where he was living like a prince, where is rule of law? Nawaz sharif has sold Pakistan to IMF.
NAWAZ SHARIF HAS SOLD PAKISTAN TO IMP AND AMERICA.
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