Britain to Give ‘Top Priority’ to Pak in Foreign Policy: Hague
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that his country will give ‘top priority’ to Pakistan in its foreign policy and that he will be visiting Islamabad in next few weeks, said media reports.
Hague made the statement while addressing his first press conference as foreign secretary of the Conservative party and the Liberal Democratic coalition government.
Answering a query if Britain will play a role to ease out difference between India and Pakistan, he said: “It will not be our approach to lecture other countries on how they should conduct their bilateral relations and we won’t tell India and Pakistan how to conduct their bilateral relations.”
About meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani earlier this month in Bhutan, Hague said, “We do welcome recent developments. That such relations are improved is of course important to relations in that region and the future peace of the world.”
He said that he would hold discussions with Pakistani leadership about the Indo-Pak ties during his visit to Islamabad, reports said.
On Wednesday during a debate on foreign affairs in the House of Commons, former foreign secretary David Miliband urged Hague to engage with Pakistan as 75% of terror threats to Britain were originated from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.
(Based on internet reports)
