INDIA (MAY 13, 2025) (INDIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS - RESTRICTED) RESTRICTION: USERS MUST CREDIT “INDIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS” HANDOUT, MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO —EDITORIAL USE ONLY — SHOTLIST: 1. INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN RANDHIR JAISWAL SPEAKING AT PRESS CONFERENCE (English) "As you are aware, we have a long-standing national position that any issues pertaining to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir have to be addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally. That stated policy has not changed. As you are aware, the outstanding matter is the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan. Jessica, you had a question on IWT. The other day you saw that after the CCS decision, this Indus Water Treaty has been put in advance. I would also like to take you back a little. The IWT, the Indus Water Treaty, was concluded in the spirit of goodwill and friendship as specified in the preamble of the treaty. However, Pakistan has held these principles in advance by its promotion of cross-border terrorism for several decades now. Now as per CCS decision that I referred to of 23rd April, India will keep the treaty in advance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-water terrorism. Please note that climate change, demographic shifts and technological changes have created new realities on ground as well." INDIA - MAY 13 - RESTRICTION: USERS MUST CREDIT “INDIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS” HANDOUT, MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO —EDITORIAL USE ONLY — India said Tuesday that any issue related to Jammu and Kashmir is a bilateral matter with Pakistan, after US President Donald Trump said he would work with the two South Asian neighbors on the decades-long dispute. It is a "long-standing national position," Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal told a news conference. "That stated policy has not changed. The outstanding matter is the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan," Jaiswal said when asked about Trump’s statement. The US president said after he announced the ceasefire deal that he would "work with you both to see if, after a 'thousand years,' a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir." Pakistan welcomed Trump's statement, which came on the heels of a US-mediated ceasefire on Saturday after days of heightened military tensions with missiles and drones fired across the borders of India and Pakistan. Tensions rocketed between the two following an attack by unidentified gunmen which left 26 people dead, mostly Indian tourists, on April 22 in Indian-administered Kashmir. New Delhi blamed Islamabad, which denied any role but proposed an impartial probe. Soon after, the two sides took several reciprocal diplomatic measures, including the unilateral suspension by New Delhi of the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-long water-sharing pact. "India will keep the Indus Waters treaty in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism," said Jaiswal. Islamabad warned that any attempt to divert or stop water would be deemed an "act of war." Separately, India on Tuesday declared a Pakistani official working at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi persona non grata for "indulging in activities not in keeping with his official status in India.” In a tit-for-tat move, Pakistan also declared an Indian official with its high commission in Islamabad persona non grata for engaging in activities "incompatible with his privileged status."