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P-5 supports Indian stand on talks with Pak: Vajpayee

V S Chandrasekar in Lausanne | June 02, 2003 21:03 IST

Leaders of five powerful nations (P-5), including United States President George W Bush, have supported the Indian stand that cross-border terrorism from Pakistan should end.

Addressing a press conference at the conclusion of his weeklong three-nation tour, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, "There is a global support (for the Indian position). They say you talk (to Pakistan). We will make our efforts to see that cross-border violence ends."

Even the Chinese President Hu Jintao, he said, appreciated India's peace initiative.

Asked whether Bush gave an assurance that he would put pressure on President Pervez Musharraf when the Pakistani ruler meets him in Washington later this month, Vajpayee said, "It is difficult to express it in words."

At a dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg for visiting heads of State and government, Bush assured Vajpayee that he would take up the issue of cross-border terrorism with Musharraf when he meets him in Washington later this month.

Bush, Vajpayee said, wanted to know whether India has started a dialogue with Pakistan. "I told him preliminary discussions have started. The real and substantive will take time. For that the cross-border terrorism should end and steps have to be taken to destroy the infrastructure that supports violence."

The US president, he said replied, 'Yes, I know. It is necessary that it (ends). And I will tell him (Musharraf) that. He did not say I will put pressure'.

Asked what he felt about the assurance and whether the US would put pressure, he said "Let's see."



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Its beeing distributed as achievement, is it really?? its same that a country 0f 1 billion people is feeling proud in such things. I think ...


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