US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be visiting South Asia soon, the State Department said Thursday.
"The Secretary at some point will be going to South Asia," the State Department spokesperson Robert Wood told reporters during the course of his daily press briefing.
On a question why Clinton is not going to South Asia, which the Obama Administration considers as a hot spot and India in particular, as has been requested by a number of US lawmakers, Wood said Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, is already on his way to the region.
"The Secretary felt very strongly that we needed to get that Special Representative out to the region as quickly as possible and show that we're very interested, very concerned about what's going on with regard to the situation in
Afghanistan and Pakistan," Wood said.
"She will eventually be going to the region. But the fact that we've got a very distinguished negotiator, Holbrooke, going to the region that's very significant as well," Wood said.