“Indus Treaty will remain in abeyance…” MEA quotes PM Modi: ‘blood, water can’t flow together’

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): “Indus Treaty will remain in abeyance…” MEA quotes PM Modi: ‘blood, water can’t flow together’.

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00:00Any India-Pakistan engagement has to be bilateral.

00:03I would like to remind you that talks and terror don't go together.

00:10Any bilateral discussion on Jammu and Kashmir will only be on the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan.

00:19On the question of Indus Waters Treaty, I am again repeating myself,

00:23it will remain in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.

00:32As the Prime Minister has said, water and blood cannot flow together.

00:38Trade and terror also cannot go together.

00:41Rene, on the question of President Trump,

00:45see I had made my, in the last briefing I had made very clear, I had addressed this issue.

00:55Further to that I have nothing to add, but at the same time I would like to let you know

01:02that you are aware of our position, that any India-Pakistan engagement has to be bilateral.

01:10At the same time I would like to remind you that talks and terror don't go together.

01:20On terrorism itself, as I had said earlier,

01:23we are open to discussing the handing over to India of noted terrorists whose list was given to Pakistan some years ago.

01:33I would also like to underline that any bilateral discussion on Jammu and Kashmir

01:40will only be on the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan.

01:47And on the question of Indus Waters Treaty, I am again repeating myself,

01:52it will remain in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.

01:59As the Prime Minister has said, water and blood cannot flow together.

02:06Trade and terror also cannot go together.