An American newspaper has claimed that the White House rejecting the request of US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has said that the President Barrack Hussain Obama will not offer a formal condolence to Pakistan over the deaths of 24 soldiers in NATO air strike on a Pakistani check post in Mohmand Agency last week.
According to US news paper “New York Times” the While House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences to Pakistan for the deaths 24 soldiers in NATO air strike.
On Monday, Cameron Munter, the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, told a group of White House officials that a formal video statement from Obama was needed to help prevent the rapidly deteriorating relations between Islamabad and Washington. The ambassador, speaking by videoconference from Islamabad, said that anger in Pakistan had reached a fever pitch, and that the United States needed to move to defuse it as quickly as possible, the officials recounted.
Respond to which the White House has said that expressions of remorse offered by senior department officials and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were enough, at least until the completion of a United States military investigation establishing what went wrong.
On the other hand US has stressed that Pakistan should attend the Bonn Conference through participation at junior level.
It is worth mentioning here that the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that US learnt a lesson from NATO attack, while according to the Obama administration the apology of President Obama should help the opposition party Republicans in elections.