{"id":890355,"date":"2022-02-24T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T08:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/?p=890355"},"modified":"2022-08-30T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:57:29","slug":"u-s-has-informed-pakistan-of-its-stance-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/u-s-has-informed-pakistan-of-its-stance-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Has Informed Pakistan of its Stance on Russian Invasion of Ukraine: State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price in Washington, D.C., on July 14. Photo by Freddie Everett; Courtesy State Department<\/p><\/div>\n

Reacting to P.M. Imran Khan\u2019s ongoing visit to Moscow, spokesperson says it is incumbent on all \u2018responsible\u2019 countries to voice objection to Putin\u2019s actions<\/h6>\n

It is the responsibility of every \u201cresponsible country around the world\u201d to voice concerns over Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s actions in Ukraine, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday while responding to a question on how Washington was seeing Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s visit to Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve communicated to Pakistan our position regarding Russia\u2019s further renewed invasion of Ukraine, and we have briefed them on our efforts to pursue diplomacy over war,\u201d he said during a press briefing. \u201cWe have a longstanding partnership and cooperation with Pakistan. We view our partnership with a prosperous, with a democratic Pakistan as critical to U.S. interests,\u201d he said, adding that Washington hoped that those \u201cshared interests\u201d of avoiding a destabilizing conflict would be communicated in \u201cunambiguous language\u201d in every country\u2019s engagements with Russia.<\/p>\n

To a follow-up question on whether the U.S. was reading the visit as Khan \u201cindirectly endorsing\u201d Putin, Price demurred and said this was a question for the Pakistani government. \u201cI\u2019m just not in a position to offer an assessment on the timing of foreign counterparts\u2019 travel to another country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Khan reached Moscow on Wednesday night for a two-day official visit\u2014the first such visit by a Pakistani leader in 23 years. According to the Foreign Office, the premier is scheduled to meet the Russian president, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, with an aim toward pushing for expediting the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline and facilitating bilateral cooperation on the economy. It is unclear if these projects would be impacted by the sanctions that Western nations have now imposed on Russia in the wake of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Newsweek<\/em> Pakistan ahead of his trip, the prime minister had hoped that the conflict could be avoided, and warned of its consequences on the global community, including through higher fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reacting to P.M. Imran Khan\u2019s ongoing visit to Moscow, spokesperson says it is incumbent on all \u2018responsible\u2019 countries to voice objection to Putin\u2019s actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":887530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[3003,12436,101,1644,41298,148,41299,191,1455,607,202,36195],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ned-price-US-state.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}