Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Quotes

Stability in South Asia will depend, first and foremost, on the always troubled Indian-Pakistani relationship.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

I said that we stand for strong relations with India, we stand for peaceful resolution of all our problems with India, including Kashmir.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.

The only thing that is worse than dealing with Pakistan is the neglect of doing so.

We [Iran and the United States] have a common destiny in this region [The Middle East].

Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.

I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.

What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?

My suggestion and my recommendation is, to solve the problem in Korea, you need to solve that problem with China. It's a client state of China.

The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home.

Whatever your views on Pakistan, our effort was that we have to engage Pakistan. They are our neighbours. We can choose our friends, but we cannot choose our neighbours.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].