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New Delhi: Describing the situation in Iraq as "complex and very challenging", the visiting chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers on July 29 said his talks here were not linked to encourage India to send troops to stabilise the war-ravaged country.

Asserting that US would militarily overcome resistance in Iraq, Myers said the decision to send troops to Iraq would be of individual nations, but at the same time said that 34 countries were joining the stabilisation force in Iraq.

Addressing a press conference, he also discounted any move by US to ask India to send troops to join the international peace-keeping force in Afghanistan and declared that his current visit had been scheduled three months ago and was aimed at boosting military-to-military co-operation between the two countries.

PTI