INDIA: Pakistan��������s Foreign Minister arrives in India for talks

Record ID: 1373601

  • Title: INDIA: Pakistan��������s Foreign Minister arrives in India for talks
  • Date: 27th July 2011
  • Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (JULY 26, 2011) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) AN AIRCRAFT OF THE PAKISTAN AIR FORCE TAXIING TOWARDS THE TARMAC 'PAKISTAN AIR FORCE' WRITTEN ON THE AIRCRAFT HINA RABBANI KHAR, FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN, STEPPING OUT OF THE AIRCRAFT KHAR DEBOARDING THE AIRCRAFT KHAR MEETING SHAHID MALIK, PAKISTAN'S ENVOY TO INDIA, AND OTHER INDIAN OFFICIALS KHAR GREETING INDIAN OFFICIALS KHAR WALKING TOWARDS MEDIAPERSONS (SOUNDBITE) (English) HINA RABBANI KHAR, FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN, SAYING: "This is my, as you know, first trip to India and to New Delhi as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. I bring the good wishes of the people of Pakistan, of the government of Pakistan and hope that these two countries, we have learnt lessons from history, but are not burdened by history. We can move forward as good, friendly neighbours who have a stake in each other's future and who understand the responsibility that both the countries have to the region and within the region." KHAR WALKING TOWARDS HER CAR
  • Embargoed: 11th August 2011 09:10
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  • Location: India, India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
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  • Story Text: Pakistan's newly appointed foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday (July 26) to push forward the peace process with India, derailed after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
    Thirty four-year-old Khar, who is the first woman foreign minister of Pakistan and also the youngest, would be meeting her Indian counterpart, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, on Wednesday (July 27).
    Holding out promise of better ties with the south Asian neighbour, Khar said the two countries could come closer as friendly neighbours with stake in each other's future.
    "This is my, as you know, first trip to India and to New Delhi as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. I bring the good wishes of the people of Pakistan, of the government of Pakistan and hope that these two countries, we have learnt lessons from history, but are not burdened by history. We can move forward as good, friendly neighbours who have a stake in each other's future and who understand the responsibility that both the countries have to the region and within the region," she told media persons after her arrival at the New Delhi airport.
    The two countries resumed formal peace talks in February, after suspension of dialogue following terror attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 by Pakistan-based militants that killed 166 people.
    The foreign secretaries (top diplomats) of the two countries are meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday to give final touches to the talks ahead of the foreign ministers' meeting.
    Last month, the talks held between top diplomats in Islamabad were positive. The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan agreed to expand confidence-building measures on nuclear and conventional weapons, and improve trade and travel across the ceasefire line dividing the disputed Kashmir.
    However, as in previous peace efforts, progress has been slow, and vulnerable to attempts by extremists to trigger a war between the two countries by launching militant attacks.
    The two nuclear-armed rivals have fought three wars since gaining independence from the British colonial rule in 1947, two of them over the disputed region of Kashmir which is ruled in part and claimed in full by both.
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