US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden on Sunday said the Afghanistan-Pakistan situation 'implicates India and a whole lot of very complicated issues,' calling it as one of the immediate concerns for the Barack Obama administration.
"And I think what is clear from the outset here is that we have a situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is urgent. It implicates India. It also implicates a whole lot of other very complicated issues," he told ABC's This Week programme.
"And so, first and foremost, I think, if we want to talk about immediacy, I think that Afghanistan, Pakistan track is a very immediate concern," he added. Biden also said in the course of the interview that he has been asked by President-elect to ascertain, in consultation with Obama foreign policy team, the circumstance that the new administration is inheriting in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
"I' ve been asked by the president and I've been meeting separately and collectively with the foreign policy team. That is the national security adviser, the secretary of state, the secretary of defence. "One of my tasks, responsibilities is to work with that group to come up with a baseline for the president as to what we view the circumstance we're inheriting in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan," he stated.