Pakistan’s leaders were determined to turn attention back toward their country’s rapidly deteriorating relations with India, a challenge with which the US could help. So when they received America’s draft of the statement to be issued after the Obama-Sharif meeting, and saw that it focused almost entirely on nuclear issues, it was decided that Aziz would head to Washington a day early to agree on revisions.
巴基斯坦领导人决心把注意力重新转向快速恶化的印巴关系，而美国可以协助化解这一难题。因此当他们拿到奥巴马谢里夫会后准备印发的美国声明草案并发现其几乎完全集中于核问题时，他们决定将派阿齐兹提前一天前往华盛顿谈判修改问题。