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04-28-2016, 05:18 AM
CAMBRIDGE: Pakistan’s relationship with China is strategic, historic, trouble-free and pivotal to the country’s foreign policy, Maleeha Lodhi said during a talk at the Harvard University here.
Speaking in a programme run by the Kennedy School called the Future of Diplomacy, Lodhi, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, set out the country’s regional and global agenda and emphasised that this reflected national priorities and Islamabad’s role as a critical state in international affairs. The national priorities, she listed, included eco**mic revival, defeat of terrorism and elimination of violent extremism in and around Pakistan, preservation of the country’s strategic capability and building regional peace and stability. The latter, she explained, required an end to the conflict in Afghanistan and **rmalisation of Pakistan-India relations on an equitable and durable basis.
Ambassador Lodhi told the audience that Pakistan’s multiple foreign policy engagements today were shaped by these national priorities. She also called regional eco**mic cooperation and connectivity as a**ther key priority. This, she said, was being pursued through various trans-regional projects, which aimed at enhancing prospects of development.
She cited the China Pakistan Eco**mic Corridor as the most ambitious and potentially game-changing example of regional eco**mic cooperation. On the Pakistan-China relationship, Lodhi said the strategic evolution of this relationship had given the Si**-Pak partnership an added significance at a time of a fundamental change in the global balance of power brought about by China’s rise as a global eco**mic powerhouse. In recent years, she said, the bilateral ties had broadened and diversified from the traditional focus on defence and military cooperation towards a greater eco**mic and investment orientation.
An enduring relationship between Pakistan and the US was a strategic imperative for Islamabad for achieving lasting peace and stability in the region and beyond, she said.She said Pakistan sought to **rmalize relations with India by finding political solutions to outstanding disputes. While Islamabad had repeatedly urged Delhi to resume the broad-based comprehensive peace process, India was yet to agree and had instead signalled that it was only interested in talking about terrorism. This, she said, did **t make the prospects of diplomatic progress too bright.
On Afghanistan, she responded to a question about President Ashraf Ghani’s latest statement by saying that advocating intensified military action against the insurgency seemed to run counter to the firm international consensus that a political solution was the only viable way to bring peace to Afghanistan.
This, she added, was what Pakistan had recommended for the past decade or more. She reminded the audience that for the past 14 years, a military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan had proved elusive.
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Speaking in a programme run by the Kennedy School called the Future of Diplomacy, Lodhi, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, set out the country’s regional and global agenda and emphasised that this reflected national priorities and Islamabad’s role as a critical state in international affairs. The national priorities, she listed, included eco**mic revival, defeat of terrorism and elimination of violent extremism in and around Pakistan, preservation of the country’s strategic capability and building regional peace and stability. The latter, she explained, required an end to the conflict in Afghanistan and **rmalisation of Pakistan-India relations on an equitable and durable basis.
Ambassador Lodhi told the audience that Pakistan’s multiple foreign policy engagements today were shaped by these national priorities. She also called regional eco**mic cooperation and connectivity as a**ther key priority. This, she said, was being pursued through various trans-regional projects, which aimed at enhancing prospects of development.
She cited the China Pakistan Eco**mic Corridor as the most ambitious and potentially game-changing example of regional eco**mic cooperation. On the Pakistan-China relationship, Lodhi said the strategic evolution of this relationship had given the Si**-Pak partnership an added significance at a time of a fundamental change in the global balance of power brought about by China’s rise as a global eco**mic powerhouse. In recent years, she said, the bilateral ties had broadened and diversified from the traditional focus on defence and military cooperation towards a greater eco**mic and investment orientation.
An enduring relationship between Pakistan and the US was a strategic imperative for Islamabad for achieving lasting peace and stability in the region and beyond, she said.She said Pakistan sought to **rmalize relations with India by finding political solutions to outstanding disputes. While Islamabad had repeatedly urged Delhi to resume the broad-based comprehensive peace process, India was yet to agree and had instead signalled that it was only interested in talking about terrorism. This, she said, did **t make the prospects of diplomatic progress too bright.
On Afghanistan, she responded to a question about President Ashraf Ghani’s latest statement by saying that advocating intensified military action against the insurgency seemed to run counter to the firm international consensus that a political solution was the only viable way to bring peace to Afghanistan.
This, she added, was what Pakistan had recommended for the past decade or more. She reminded the audience that for the past 14 years, a military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan had proved elusive.
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