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Kashmir, N-issues to dog Clinton's India visit
NEW DELHI. Mar 20 US President Bill Clinton begins a five-day state visit to India on Tuesday, with differences over non-proliferation and IndoPakistan tensions over Kashmir likely to figure high on the agenda, reports AFP.
Clinton, who spent Sunday night in the Indian capital before flying for a day-long visit to Bangladesh, will begin nis official visit to India with a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace on Tuesday morning.
After a visit to the mausoleum of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi. Clinton will hold talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
It will be the first visit to India by a US president for more than 20 years and both countries are looking to bring a new dynamic to their neglected bilateral relationship.
But Clinton has made it clear that he wants India to show more restraint in its nuclear programme and make efforts to reduce tension with arch-rival Pakistan.
"Narrowing our differences on non-proliferation is important to realising the full potential of our relationship." Clinton said in an article published on the front page of the Times of India.
"As the United States and Russia move towards deeper
cuts In our nuclear arsenals. South Asia should not be headed In the opposite direction."
India and Pakistan conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in May 1998. prompting US sanctions which have since been partially lifted.
"We will raise the question of sanctions." India's National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra said after Clinton's arrival on Sunday evening.
"They are an impediment in the relationship between the two countries including In areas of trade and commerce."
On the territorial dispute over Kashmir, which has triggered two wars between India and Pakistan. Clinton acknowledged India's strong opposition to any third-party Interference.
"I am not going to mediate the dispute between India and Pakistan. America cannot play that role unless both sides want it," he said.
"But I will urge restraint, respect for the Line of Control (LoC) and renewed lines of commun ication."
The LoC -- the de facto border dividing Indian- and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir -- witnessed a bloody two-month conflict last summer, when Indian troops beat back an Incursion by Pakistan-backed guerrillas.
"Both India and Pakistan have legitimate security concerns. But neither can achieve its alms In an escalating contest of inflicting and absorbing pain," Clinton said.
Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said In an interview carried on the BBC Monday. that instead of meddling in the Kashmir dispute. Washington would best serve stability in the region by exerting pressure on its old Cold War ally Pakistan.
"1 think the best way the United States of America can help is really not to wish to facilitate. mediate or intervene," Singh said.
They can help by recognising the reality of what Is happening within Pakistan and. having recognised it, thereafter address themselves to that much older ally.”
After leaving India. Clinton will stop over In Pakistan for several hours for talks with military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, who came to power in a military coup in October.
"Engagement with Pakistan does not represent endorsement (of the military regime)." Clinton said.
"Staying away only would strengthen hardliners in Pakistan who want their country to turn away from the world."