Washington/New Delhi, May 9 (UNI) America has been speaking with a variety of leaders of both India and Pakistan over the last two days in an effort to de-escalate tension, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said, but declined to provide details.
As US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to both External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urging both sides to de-escalate and hold dialogue, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Marco Rubio has been the “center point leading these conversations and this outreach”.
“And he’s made very clear focusing on two things: that this should not escalate. This has been a key framework. Clearly this has been an issue for decades and it’s – with what we saw over the last few weeks after the terrorist attack, it was not surprising but very, very disappointing. But it was about, certainly, that it should not escalate. And communication was fundamentally key, that there should be talks, that there should not be silence, and that America obviously was in the center of this in speaking with a variety of leaders of both countries over the last two days.”