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Vance blames lack of press freedom over delay in release<\/h2>\n
While appearing on The New York Times (NYT) podcast, \u2018Interesting Times with Ross Douthat\u2019, the US Vice President blamed the lack of press freedom in the mediator nations as a reason for the delay in publishing the full text of the \u201cIslamabad Memorandum of Understanding\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
During the conversation, Vance faced a question about what the deal delivered for the US and the world that could not have been secured without three months of war.<\/p>\n
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To this, he replied, \u201cSo first of all, we actually really want to get this out because it\u2019s hard to have the conversation without the full text.<\/p>\n
And I think part of the misalignment here is that in the Pakistani and Qatari systems, they don\u2019t quite have the First Amendment and freedom of the press, and so there isn\u2019t this expectation that the text is going to be out there for the American people to actually interrogate and look at and analyze and understand for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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