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Bush assures Vajpayee to press Musharraf on terrorism NEW DELHI, Monday (AFP) US President George W. Bush has indicated he would talk to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the need to end "cross-border terrorism" in India when the two meet later this month, Indian government sources. A Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency report said "authoritative sources" told this to reporters on board Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's aircraft en route to the French resort Evian to attend the G8 summit. Musharraf is due to visit the United States later in June. The assurance was given to Vajpayee when he sat to the left of Bush at a dinner Saturday night in Saint Petersburg hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the PTI report said. The sources said Bush agreed with Vajpayee that successful dialogue between India and Pakistan was not possible without an end to "cross-border terrorism" in disputed Kashmir. It was the first direct contact between Bush and Vajpayee since the Indian premier in April offered a "hand of friendship" to Pakistan, easing 17 months of strained relations that had brought the nuclear-armed South Asian adversaries to the brink of war. |
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