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C'wealth upholds Pakistan exclusion

LONDON, Wednesday (Reuters) Commonwealth foreign ministers welcomed steps towards democracy in Pakistan but upheld its exclusion from the group of mainly former British colonies until parliament wins full control from the military.

Speaking after a meeting in London, the ministers said democratic institutions had continued to develop in Pakistan since military leader President Pervez Musharraf held parliamentary elections last October.

But they decided to uphold Pakistan's four-year suspension from the Commonwealth's main decision-making bodies until their next meeting in New York in September.

"We want to see a parliament in Pakistan with the full sovereign authority of a parliament," Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon told a news conference.

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