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US rejects Bilawal demand to apologise to
Pakistan for Nato attack
Thursday May 24, 2012 03:14:15 PM,
IANS
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Washington: The White
House has ruled out an apology to Islamabad for the NATO air
strike in November in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed.
It said it was time the two countries moved ahead, Pakistan's
Online news agency reported.
Pakistan's Ambassador to US Sherry Rehman and Pakistan Peoples
Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have reiterated Islamabad's
demand for an apology for the air strike.
"I wouldn't have anything new to offer on that beyond what we have
said, that we deeply regret the incident. We have thoroughly
investigated it. We shared the results of that investigation with
the Pakistanis," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor,
told journalists when asked for his reaction to Bhutto's demand.
"We believe there's a basis for us to move forward and move beyond
that particular incident, to take steps to make sure that that
doesn't happen again, to be respectful of Pakistani sovereignty
and to be in, frankly, better communication in that areas so that
we don't see repeated incidents on the border," he said.
Rhodes said a bilateral meeting between President Barack Obama and
his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari was never planned on
the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Chicago.
"On the matter of a bilateral meeting, the president (Obama)
didn't host any formal bilateral meetings except for the one with
President Karzai, given the fact that there was a very busy NATO
summit schedule. So, it was always our intention to really focus
his time on these multilateral meetings," Rhodes said.
He said the meeting with Karzai was a priority as Afghanistan was
the focus of the summit. Obama was able to meet on the margins of
the summit a handful of leaders that included Zardari.
"They met twice around the margins of the ISAF session. These
weren't extensive talks. They were rather brief. But one of them
was a one-on-one between President Obama and President Zardari,
and the other one was a trilateral discussion amongst President
Obama, President Zardari and President Karzai," Rhodes said.
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