Modi-Sharif meet in Ufa Russia
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year to attend SAARC Summit. Modi has accepted Nawaz Sharif’s invitation to attend 2016 SAARC summit in his country. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said that Mr. Modi has accepted Mr. Sharif’s invitation to visit Pakistan in 2016 for the SAARC summit.
Meanwhile India and Pakistan today decided to revive the stalled dialogue process and find ways to expedite trial of the Mumbai attack case as Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif agreed to cooperate to eliminate terrorism from South Asia.
Mr. Modi and Mr. Sharif, in their first bilateral talks in over an year, met for nearly one hour in Ufa, Russia on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit and discussed entire gamut of issues between the two countries.
Foreign Secretaries S Jaishankar and Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry held a joint press meet where they read out a joint statement on the outcome of the much-anticipated meeting between the two leaders. Briefing media persons, foreign secretaries said both countries have condemn terrorism in all forms and decide to take steps to deal with the menace.
They said that the meeting between the two leaders was cordial and the two countries have agreed to hold collective responsibility to ensure peace and development and to do so they are prepare to discuss all outstanding issues.
Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said the two countries agreed that National Security Advisers of both the countries will meet in New Delhi to discuss all issues connected to terrorism. He said, both the leaders decided to hold early meetings of DG, BSFand DG, Pakistan Rangers followed by that of DGMOs.
The two sides also agrees to develop mechanism to enhance religious tourism. The joint statement said that the two sides also decided to release within 15 days fishermen in each other’s custody and their boats