WASHINGTON: (Jun 5) India respects American presidency but New Delhi has “never wanted to ask anyone to mediate” and no one needed to tell us to ‘stop’, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, amid repeated claims by US President Donald Trump of his role in the recent conflict between India and Pakistan.
“All I can say is that we have enormous respect for the American presidency and the American president. All we can say for ourselves is that we have never particularly wanted to ask anyone to mediate,” said Tharoor, the leader of the all-party parliamentary delegation which arrived here on Tuesday afternoon and began its packed day of meetings with lawmakers and government officials on Wednesday.
During an interaction at the National Press Club here on Wednesday, Tharoor stressed that India had no real difficulty in speaking the same language as the Pakistanis. PTI
