Donald Trump offers mediation between India, Pakistan after ceasefire

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US President Donald Trump said that he is looking forward to working with both countries to reach a solution on the Kashmir issue after a "thousand years."

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00:00An American president offers to mediate on Kashmir.

00:03Trump says, we'll work with a solution on Kashmir.

00:06Donald Trump has made that offer.

00:07Can there be a solution on Kashmir's 1,000 years that he's been talking about?

00:12Trump says, I will work with you both to see if after 1,000 years a solution can be arrived at.

00:18That's running Kashmir.

00:19God bless the leadership of India and Pakistan on a job well done.

00:26Geetha Mohan is getting in.

00:28More details in that story, a significant statement there from Donald Trump,

00:31who's time and again spoken about the fact that this is a long, long pending issue.

00:38It's in fact, this has been simmering for thousands of years, is what he said in the past.

00:44But importantly says, I will intervene and see if I can help you, if I can mediate.

00:49Geetha, talk to us about the repercussions of this statement and the implications of the same.

00:54Well, he's got one thing absolutely factually wrong, which is that it's a 1,000-year dispute between India and Pakistan.

01:02India and Pakistan did not exist 1,000 years ago.

01:05It's a problem since 1947.

01:07And India is very clear that there can be no third-party intervention on the issue of Kashmir.

01:15It's the reason why we've always rejected any call for a mediation or a conversation by the United Nations

01:22in an issue that has to be solved bilaterally.

01:25India, again, very clear that anything to do with Kashmir is a bilateral issue and has to be resolved bilaterally.

01:32India maintains that the whole undivided Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India

01:38and Pakistan will have to engage India on that count and on that front.

01:46So a third-party intervention or a mediation on this certainly will not go down well.

01:51It has not gone down well in the past when presidents and prime ministers in the past

01:55unknowingly offered mediation on the issue of Kashmir.

01:59That's right. And also, Gita, India has always made its position clear, even more so recently,

02:05that this is an issue that cannot be internationalized, isn't it?

02:10Absolutely. The internationalization bit is a problem India has had with Pakistan

02:16because Pakistan always refers to the United Nations and that the issue should be taken up by the UN.

02:22And India has always maintained that instead of internationalizing the issue of Kashmir,

02:28the two countries need to sit and discuss and resolve the issue.

02:33But now, there's a bigger problem that India has been facing over decades when it comes to Pakistan

02:38and that's the issue of terrorism.

02:41So India now, again, changing its position on this very issue,

02:46saying that Kashmir can be resolved only once the issue of terrorism is resolved.

02:51That's right. Gita, getting into those details, be with us.

02:54I'm just going to come back to you for more on that in a moment from now.

02:57Shivani is also back with us for the very latest.

03:00Shivani, a statement with significant consequences.

03:03India, like Gita has been saying, always has been against the internationalization of the Kashmir issue,

03:09saying that this is a bilateral matter.

03:11But this time around, US President Donald Trump,

03:14who has said that he was the one to in fact to broker peace

03:17or work out that ceasefire that we saw yesterday,

03:21at least the announcement of it,

03:23is also ready now to mediate peace when it comes to the Kashmir issue.

03:29How do you look at this statement?

03:32And how would India, do you think, would be looking at it as well?

03:35Stay high in a matter of 30 hours.

03:41This is the second attempt or a claim that is coming in from the United States President

03:46that he wants to mediate when it comes to the Kashmir issue.

03:50But remember when yesterday, at around 5.30,

03:53when Donald Trump's post came that congratulations to both the countries

03:57as they are now into a ceasefire,

04:00he also, the same post had that both the countries will be now agreeing

04:05on a neutral side about Kashmir dispute,

04:07to which there were rejections, straight rejections that came in

04:11at the Foreign Secretary's press conference,

04:14where he said and clarified that we are just stopping the military action that continues.

04:18There is no other understanding or any agreement on discussing the issue of Kashmir

04:25on any neutral side.

04:27So that point was cut there by India.

04:29This is the second time when we are seeing this post by U.S. President

04:33where he is once again mediating.

04:34He tries to offer that mediation between India and Pakistan to discuss Kashmir issue.

04:40But we are very sure that India, as we understand,

04:44doesn't want any kind of mediation from the United States or any other third country.

04:49It is its own issue.

04:50And it has already been clarified, Sneha,

04:53that talks and terror cannot go hand in hand.

04:56So now, first acknowledgement that is that Pakistan has to acknowledge that it is harboring terrorists

05:04inside its boundaries.

05:06So as of now, no mediation will be accepted by India,

05:10even if these offers come again and again from the United States.

05:13All right, again and again from the United States.

05:15But will there be a change in position?

05:17I want to ask you this, given that in a conflict that had escalated,

05:22in the tensions, Shivani, that had escalated over the last few days or so,

05:26India and Pakistan were both in conversation with the United States.

05:30It was said that 48 hours or so of conversation is what finally led to the ceasefire announcement

05:37at 5 last evening.

05:38And this announcement actually was first made by President Donald Trump.

05:43So what will India now or what will India's position rather be now

05:47when it comes to the complex issue of Kashmir?

05:54Sneha, India's position has been quite clear in the past many years about the Kashmir issue.

06:02India has been standing by what it says that it cannot accept any kind of talks with Pakistan

06:09on Kashmir issue and it should be accepted and acknowledged that Kashmir is a part of sovereign India

06:16and no attempts to infiltrate the boundaries will be accepted.

06:19And that's the thing for which the Indian forces and the government has been working.

06:24So no mediation is accepted by India on the issue of Kashmir

06:28because for India, Kashmir is India's own land,

06:33India's own sovereignty cannot be compromised upon.

06:37And again and again, Pakistan should not wake up this issue of Kashmir at all

06:40because it should understand that it has nothing to do with Kashmir.

06:44In fact, we have seen a lot of statements that have come in from the government,

06:48including the defence minister on the POJK2,

06:50and they have been admitting that this also is a part of,

06:54it should have been a part of our territory

06:56and attempts have been made to restore it.

06:59So that kind of commentary has already been done, Sneha.

07:03So there's no question of India accepting any kind of mediation on Kashmir issue for that matter,

07:09if US wants to do so.

07:11And in last 30 hours,

07:12we've seen how after the first such post that had come by United States President,

07:20India's foreign ministry brought out a statement.

07:23It said that no talks or negotiations with Pakistan will be happening on a neutral site.

07:31And we have a very strong stand against terrorism.

07:36Zero tolerance for terrorism.

07:38Terrorism and talks cannot go hand in hand.

07:41In fact, the decisions that were made after the CCS about the abeyance of Indus Water Treaty

07:45and several other decisions, they are also not, they are there in place.

07:49They cannot be rolled back.

07:50So that is a clear message from Indian government that the action,

07:55the pause that has been brought into the military operations along the line of control

08:01and several other western border parts is an understanding, not an agreement with Pakistan.

08:06and we are maintaining vigil all across the border.

08:09Any kind of mediation cannot be accepted by India

08:14and very soon we will be getting more reactions from Indian government on this.

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