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India, Pak review progress in bilateral relations including J&K

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, June 22, IRNA -- India and Pakistan on Monday reviewed the 
progress in all aspects of bilateral relations including Jammu & 
Kashmir, and implementation of the framework for the dialogue process 
worked out in February by the foreign secretaries of the two 
countries. 
India`s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesman Navtej Sarna 
told reporters here Monday evening that during the working lunch in 
China with Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Indian 
External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh had a warm and productive 
meeting. 
During this first direct meeting following several telephone 
conversations, Kasuri and Singh assessed positively the progress in 
the discussions held, including at the meetings between Border 
Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers, the Narcotics Control 
Authorities of the two countries, and the Expert Level dialogue on 
Nuclear CBMs. 
In their first high-level direct political contact after the new 
government took over in India under the leadership of Manmohan Singh, 
the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers welcomed the agreement 
worked out in the meeting, which concluded Sunday in New Delhi, to 
establish and upgrade communications, and work for specific CBMs, 
including through an agreement on advance notification of missile 
tests. 
India and Pakistan have also called for regular working level 
meetings to be held among all the nuclear powers to discuss issues of 
common concern, Sarna said. 
They reiterated that they looked forward to the meeting of the 
foreign secretaries scheduled for June 27-28, and to concrete outcomes
from that meeting so as to take forward the present process, Sarna 
added. 
The two ministers agreed to remain in regular touch and provide 
continuous political guidance to the ongoing process. They expect to 
meet each other on several occasions over the next two months. 
Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh is currently in 
China to attend the third Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) meeting. He
has met Monday morning the foreign ministers of China, Singapore, 
Republic of Korea and Indonesia, Sarna said, adding Monday afternoon 
Singh called on the prime minister of Thailand and Monday evening 
spoke to the foreign ministers of Japan, Kazakhstan and Oman taking 
advantage of the margins of the multilateral meeting. 
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