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`No request from Pakistan for a meeting, dialogue,' says Krishna | External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, who is accompanying the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on his visit to the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, has said that India would be more than willing to talk to Pakistan, but only after authorities in that country took concrete steps to bring the perpetrators of the
26/11 terror attack on Mumbai to justice and dismantled the terrorist infrastructure
on its soil. Interacting with the media on the sidelines of a reception hosted
by the Indian High Commission for the Prime Minister and Indian Diaspora here,
Krishna said: " The idea of talking is to engage a nation. We have already said
that we would be willing to do that provided Pakistan does what it has promised
to do (bringing to justice perpetrators of mumbai). So, far there has been no
requests for a meeting from their side. Let's see." Krishna's comment came as
unconfirmed rumours were doing the rounds that Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah
Mehmood Qureshi could undertake a visit to New Delhi , but sources in the Pakistan
High Comission in the Indian capital, when contacted today, said no such planned
visit was on the anvil in the forseeable future. Last week, addressing the South
Asian Economic Integration conference organised by FICCI, South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) and his ministry, Krishna had said cross-border
terrorism and anti-India activities from neighbouring territories have impacted
on the process of South Asian regional cooperation at all levels. Krishna said:
"Issues such as cross-border terrorism and incidents of anti-India activities
from territories of our neighbouring countries have impacted on the process of
regional economic engagement, connectivity and people-to-people contacts. Whereas
prospects for cooperation are bright, a realistic assessment indicates that these
prospects have, to an extent, become captive to the security situation," he added.
South Asia , he said, must move beyond the security issues that it is bound by,
and take steps to promote an era of mutual trust, mutually reinforcing growth
and development. |
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