Washington: The United States has welcomed the strategic partnership agreement between India and Afghanistan, but said it was not looking for any mediatory role for New Delhi in the peace process in Afghanistan.
Washington considered the US-Pakistan-Afghanistan trilateral talks structure of value and favoured its continuance, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters Tuesday when asked if the US saw any role for India in the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
 Referring to reports about a strategic partnership between India and Afghanistan and India’s likely participation in the New Silk Road Initiative, she said: “Those are both things that we very much welcome.”
 “With regard to playing a mediating role, I don’t think that’s what we’re looking for here,” Nuland said. “We do believe this trilateral structure is of value and we should continue it.”
 Washington also supported “any and all warming between Pakistan and India”, Nuland said. “We’ve been strong supporters of the dialogues that the two governments have been having.”
 Asked if India had asked the US to help bring to justice perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in Pakistan and D-company head Dawood Ibrahim, she said: “Well, I think now that India and Pakistan have renewed their bilateral talks, I would expect that this is a subject between them.”
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