“We help constructive dialogue. We help diplomacy between India and Pakistan to resolve long-standing disputes. We’re a associate, and we’re keen to help that course of in any method that they deem acceptable,” US State Division spokesperson Ned Value stated at a press briefing.

“However finally, these are choices that India and Pakistan themselves are going to must make…It’s not for the USA to find out the modalities or the best way by which India and Pakistan have interaction each other,” stated Value stated.

Value’s assertion comes whilst Pakistan on Thursday determined to skip the assembly of chief justices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) scheduled in New Delhi from March 10-12.

Pakistan will the one nation which is able to skip the meet hosted.

On ties with India, Value the US’s message to India and about India is constant. “India is a worldwide strategic associate of the US,” he stated whereas replying on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s latest go to to India and his viewers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The secretary did have an viewers with the PM when he was in Delhi for G20. I’m not ready to element what was exchanged between them,” stated Value.

Blinken was in India to participate within the G20 International Ministers’ Assembly and the Raisina Dialogue.