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President to alley Monmohan's concerns
ISLAMABAD—India's concerns on cross-border terrorism and all other
aspects of Indo-Pak ties may dominate talks between Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and President Gen Pervez Musharraf on the
sidelines of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in the Cuban
capital of Havana in October.
Officials of India and Pakistan have firmed up an understanding for a
meeting between the two leaders. The meeting will take place and both
the leaders will have a frank and candid discussion on host of issues,
specially, on India's increasing concerns over the continued existence
of infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan, after Mumbai bomb blasts,
Indian officials in Islamabad said.
A formal understanding about the meeting has been reached after the
Indian High Commissioner and Foreign Secretary designate Shivshankar
Menon, who has returned from New Delhi on Thursday, held talks with top
officials of Musharraf's administration.
Indian officials said India's concerns on cross-border terrorism and its
firm belief regarding continuation of the remnants of its infrastructure
would dominate the Manmohan-Musharraf meet.
The meeting is not simply aimed at reviving the composite dialogue
process, it is about the implementation of the commitments given by the
President Musharraf to not to let Pakistan's territory to be used for
terrorist acts against India, they said.
On Pakistan's concerns over the break in the dialogue process after the
Mumbai blasts, they said only the foreign secretary-level talks to
review the third round of the Composite Dialogue process was postponed.
The Manmohan-Musharraf meeting was likely to discuss all aspects of
relations and expected to provide a direction to efforts to normalise
ties, they said. India was also expected to shortly name Menon's
successor who could take over as high commissioner early next
month.—Agencies |