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Singh, Gilani meet briefly
Ajay Kaul
Washington, Apr 13 (PTI) Even as they avoided a bilateral
meeting here on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit,
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani
counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday had a brief interaction
at a reception organised in connection with the international
meet.
Sources said a bilateral meeting between them is expected
on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) Summit to be held in Bhutan from April 26.
Singh and Gilani shook hands and chatted for about five
minutes at a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama for
the leaders gathered for the Summit.
It was Gilani who walked up to Singh at the reception,
sources said. They met warmly, with smiles on their faces and
holding hands momentarily.
They were seen discussing something but the topic was not
clear.
They "shook hands and exchanged pleasantries," India's
External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told
reporters without giving details.
Singh and Gilani, who are both here to attend the Summit
that began on Monday, held bilateral meetings with leaders of
a number of countries but not between them.
This is significant since the Foreign Secretaries of the
two countries met in February for talks that were aimed at
breaking the ice in the Indo-Pak relations caused by the
Mumbai attacks.
After the February 25 talks, India had expressed
willingness to have further rounds of Foreign Secretary-level
meetings but there has been no response from Pakistan.
Pakistan has been insisting that the talks should be
substantive in the format of Composite Dialogue that was
halted by India after the Mumbai attacks. However, India has
ruled out resumption of Composite Dialogue till Pakistan takes
concrete and transparent action against the perpetrators of
26/11.
Pakistan has taken certain steps to prosecute those
behind Mumbai attacks but India is not satisfied.
This was made clear by Singh, who told Obama on Monday
that there was "lack of will" on part of Pakistan to act
against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks. He underlined that
India wanted "convincing" action against those responsible.
PTI
Washington, Apr 13 (PTI) Even as they avoided a bilateral
meeting here on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit,
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani
counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday had a brief interaction
at a reception organised in connection with the international
meet.
Sources said a bilateral meeting between them is expected
on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) Summit to be held in Bhutan from April 26.
Singh and Gilani shook hands and chatted for about five
minutes at a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama for
the leaders gathered for the Summit.
It was Gilani who walked up to Singh at the reception,
sources said. They met warmly, with smiles on their faces and
holding hands momentarily.
They were seen discussing something but the topic was not
clear.
They "shook hands and exchanged pleasantries," India's
External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told
reporters without giving details.
Singh and Gilani, who are both here to attend the Summit
that began on Monday, held bilateral meetings with leaders of
a number of countries but not between them.
This is significant since the Foreign Secretaries of the
two countries met in February for talks that were aimed at
breaking the ice in the Indo-Pak relations caused by the
Mumbai attacks.
After the February 25 talks, India had expressed
willingness to have further rounds of Foreign Secretary-level
meetings but there has been no response from Pakistan.
Pakistan has been insisting that the talks should be
substantive in the format of Composite Dialogue that was
halted by India after the Mumbai attacks. However, India has
ruled out resumption of Composite Dialogue till Pakistan takes
concrete and transparent action against the perpetrators of
26/11.
Pakistan has taken certain steps to prosecute those
behind Mumbai attacks but India is not satisfied.
This was made clear by Singh, who told Obama on Monday
that there was "lack of will" on part of Pakistan to act
against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks. He underlined that
India wanted "convincing" action against those responsible.
PTI
