Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said he will discuss the situation in the region with visiting US Ambassador Sergio Gor, but ruled out raising internal issues with Washington’s representative, saying only the central government can resolve those issues.
The chief minister, however, said he would prefer to listen more to the ambassador even as “he (Gor) is also coming to listen”.
“It has never been my habit to lodge complaints about my country to an ambassador of another country. The resolution to our issues will not come from Washington; the resolution to our problems lies with our central government. The visit is seen as a significant US diplomatic engagement in recent years amid heightened strategic developments in the region.
Abdullah said the issues facing J-K have no direct bearing with the US, as the resolution to the issues of the Union Territory will not come from Washington but from the central government. The CM said he would certainly discuss Jammu and Kashmir and “our current situation, but I will neither complain nor seek solutions to our grievances from them”.
Earlier reporting noted: Sergio Gor, who also serves as US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for South and Central Asia, will be meeting Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. Earlier reporting noted: After Operation Sindoor, President Trump repeatedly claimed that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan in May last year and saved millions of lives — a claim India has not been comfortable with.
