IANS | 23 Jul, 2019
US Congressman Brad Sherman has said he has apologised to India's envoy
in Washington Harsh Vardhan Shringla over President Donald Trump's
"amateurish and embarrassing mistake" of offering to mediate in the
Kashmir issue.
Sherman, Representative from California's San
Fernando Valley, also said that India had consistently opposed third
party mediation in Kashmir and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would
never have suggested to Trump to intervene in the matter.
"I just
apologized to Indian Ambassador Harsh Vardhan Shringla for Trump's
amateurish and embarrassing mistake," he tweeted on Monday.
"Everyone
who knows anything about foreign policy in South Asia knows that India
consistently opposes third-party mediation re Kashmir (sic). Everyone
knows PM Modi would never suggest such a thing. Trump's statement is
amateurish and delusional. And embarrassing," he said.
On Monday,
President Trump claimed during a press conference with visiting
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan that Prime Minister Modi had asked
him to mediate in the dispute with Pakistan.
India immediately
rejected Trump's assertion. "No such request has been made by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to the US President," External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a tweet.
