Leader: Cameron: Speaking the Honest Truth or a Diplomatic Gaffe?
The Scotsman › August 02, 2010
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Whatever else Prime Minister David Cameron may have achieved by his "plain speaking" on Pakistan, it has secured high-profile attention for the visit of the country's president Gamar Zaman Kaira to the UK and continental Europe this week.
Mr Cameron may have felt fully justified in stating that "we cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country [Pakistan] is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror, whether to India or whether to Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world".See the full content of this document
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Leader: Cameron: Speaking the Honest Truth or a Diplomatic Gaffe?
There will always be argument in diplomatic circles as to the wisdom of making criticism in public when more may usefully have been gained by frank exchange in private discussion between the two leaders. If the objective is to change Pakistan's behaviou...
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