New Delhi, December 1
Japan today said it looked at the situation in Kashmir “very carefully” and hoped a peaceful resolution to the issue would be worked out through dialogue.
The comments by a spokesperson of the Japanese Foreign Ministry came a day after India and Japan held their first foreign and defence ministerial dialogue under a new framework to further broadbase strategic ties.
“I do not remember the ministers going into a detailed discussion on the specific issue,” deputy press secretary in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Atsushi Kaifu told the media when asked if the Kashmir issue figured in the talks.
“But at the same time, I can say we looked at the situation there very carefully. .. We hope a peaceful resolution will be found through dialogue,” he said. Asked about the Japan-backed bullet train project from Mumbai to Ahmedabad after a new government came to power in Maharashtra, the spokesperson said officials of both countries were working on it. Asked whether the 5G spectrum issue figured in the talks, Kaifu said it was briefly touched upon. —PTI
from The Tribune https://ift.tt/2R9YDkp
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