The United States has communicated to Pakistan its position regarding Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a daily briefing on Wednesday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
“We’ve communicated to Pakistan our position regarding Russia’s further renewed invasion of Ukraine, and we have briefed them on our efforts to pursue diplomacy over war. We have a longstanding partnership and cooperation with Pakistan,” Price said.
“We believe it’s the responsibility of every responsible country around the world to voice concern, to voice objection to what Putin appears to have in mind for Ukraine.”
Price said that the US viewed its partnership with Pakistan as “critical” to US interests.
“And we certainly hope, when it comes to those shared interests – the aversion of a costly conflict, the aversion of a destabilizing conflict, that every country around the world would make that point clearly in unambiguous language in their engagements with the Russian Federation,” Price said.
Early, in an interview with Russian broadcaster RT, PM Khan said: “This doesn’t concern us, we have a bilateral relationship with Russia and we really want to strengthen it.”
Khan added that he hoped the Ukraine crisis would be “resolved peacefully.”
“I am not a believer in military conflicts, I believe civilized societies resolve their differences through dialogue,” Khan said.