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'Solid
foundation' laid for India, Pakistan engagement: Krishna
Monday February 07, 2011 06:25:05 PM,
IANS
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Thimphu: Talks between
India and Pakistan have laid "solid foundation" for "sustained
engagement", External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Monday, a
day after foreign secretaries of the two countries met in this
Bhutan capital.
"The very fact that the two foreign secretaries met is certainly
an indication that solid foundation has been laid for getting the
two countries on a sustained engagement," Krishna told reporters
after arriving here to take part in the 33rd meeting of the South
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Council of
Ministers.
A day earlier, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her
Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir, met for 90 minutes. A
statement issued after the talks said both sides had affirmed
their commitment to take the dialogue process forward.
"The genesis of all this was the prime ministers... when they met
in Thimphu, they mandated the foreign ministers and foreign
secretaries to bridge the trust deficit between the two
countries," Krishna said, referring to the meeting between India's
Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines
of the Saarc summit in April 2010.
He added that meetings between foreign secretaries and foreign
ministers would help towards "building bridges of trust, mutual
confidence, respect and all the other things".
The last meeting of the two foreign ministers in Islamabad in July
last year ended in an acrimonious press conference. India had
invited Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for talks
again in India, and sources now state he may be coming here in
March or April.
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