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Vajpayee `likely` to meet Pak counterpart, President

IRNA

Islamabad, Dec 30, IRNA - Indian Foreign Secretary Sheshank said 
Tuesday that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is likely 
to meet Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime 
Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali during the SAARC summit, official 
media said. 
Sheshank who reached Pakistan through the Wagha Checkpost 
told reporters that issues facing the region would be discussed in 
the summit. 
About the scope of discussing bilateral issues, Sheshank said 
they could also be taken up after Pakistan meets Indian "demands", 
state APP news agency reported. 
When asked whether India would discuss the issue of Kashmir with 
the Pakistani leadership, he said: "It is different in Indian and 
Pakistani perspectives." 
Pakistan said on Monday that there was no confirmation yet of 
President General Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal 
Behari Vajpayee`s meeting during upcoming SAARC summit in Islamabad. 
In the weekly briefing, the Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Ahmed 
Khan said so far there was no confirmation of Musharraf-Vajpayee 
meeting on sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional 
Cooperation on January 4-6. 
However, he was quick to add that Vajpayee said in recent days 
that he would be happy to meet Pakistani leadership, including 
Pakistani clear. 
"We did not get a clear indication about precise intention of 
Prime Minister Vajpayee," the spokesman said hoping that there will 
be a meeting between the two leaders, the spokesman remarked. 
The summit earlier this year was postponed, as India could not 
confirm its participation because of tense Pak-India relations. 
There has been a debate and guess work going on in Pakistan and 
India whether or not there would be a Musharraf-Vajpayee rendezvous, 
the first after Agra summit in 2001, which remained inconclusive as 
far as their common approach on solution of Kashmir was concerned. 
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