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'No change in US stand on Kerry-Lugar bill'
Updated On: 14 October, 2009 11:58 AM IST | | PTI
The US on Wednesday made it clear to visiting Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi that it was unlikely to make any changes in the bill for providing $7.5 billion aid and accused the army in that country of misinterpreting the legislation to serve their own interests.
The US on Wednesday made it clear to visiting Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi that it was unlikely to make any changes in the bill for providing $7.5 billion aid and accused the army in that country of misinterpreting the legislation to serve their own interests.
"I know a number of countries have conditional aid based on meeting certain important criteria. I think the President believes this is appropriate. I think the opponents of this bill, as one of the sponsors said in the newspaper today, either are misinformed or are characterising this in a different way for their own political purposes," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
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