And up and down the chain,” Mr Fleischer added. The ambassador would be on the phone with their ambassador, chewing the ambassador out. And if they had done that to me, I would be on the phone right now with their press secretary, chewing him out. “So, for them to do it is an entire breach of diplomatic protocol and tradition. But to release what somebody else says, I am not the spokesperson for Pakistan or any other nation,” he told CNN. “We would never release what a foreign leader said to (ex-president) George W. Mr Fleischer, who was a member of former Republican president George Bush’s White House team and is close to the Trump transition team as well, noted that no government releases such readouts. The most critical comment on the Pakistani readout, however, came from a former White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer: “It’s entirely inappropriate for the Pakistani government to release what an American president-elect says in the course of a phone call.” See: Will President Trump be good or bad for Pakistan? Other members of the Trump team, quoted in media, pointed out that the Pakistanis overplayed Mr Trump’s offer to play “a role” in resolving Pakistan’s disputes with India. “President-elect Trump also noted that he is looking forward to a lasting and strong personal relationship with Prime Minister Sharif,” the statement added.Īn unidentified adviser to the Trump team said the Pakistani readout of the talk had “committed the president-elect to more than what he meant”. “President-elect Trump and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke … had a productive conversation about how the United States and Pakistan will have a strong working relationship in the future,” said the Trump transition team in a rare readout of his conversation with a foreign leader. WASHINGTON: The Trump transition team has issued its own version of the Sharif-Trump telephone call, saying that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and US president-elect Donald Trump did have a ‘productive conversation’ on Wednesday, but it lacked the “flowery language” included in the Pakistani version of this talk.

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