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| Friday, 11 June 2004 |
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Pakistan wants disputes with India resolved in "reasonable" time ISLAMABAD, Thursday (Reuters) Pakistan and India must resolve their disputes over issues like Kashmir "within a reasonable timeline," Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday ahead of peace talks due to resume this month. Addressing a seminar on prospects of peace and stability in South Asia, Musharraf said a process of confidence building now under way could not be a substitute for tackling complicated issues between the nuclear-armed neighbours. "Both have to progress together," he was quoted by the state-run APP news agency as saying. He said the countries needed to show enough maturity to be able to resolve disputes bilaterally "within a reasonable timeline," APP said. Musharraf called for sincerity, flexibility and boldness to find a "viable, genuine and lasting" settlement of the central Kashmir dispute that is fair to Pakistan, India and the Kashmiris. "I honestly believe that the present time is ideal for resolution of all Pakistan-India issues," he said in excerpts of his speech shown on state-run Pakistan Television. "Leaders on both sides have to be sincere, to develop confidence and trust in each other," he said. "They have to be flexible enough to reach mutually acceptable solutions to previously intractable disputes and bold enough to bulldoze all opposition and risks en-route to peace." Pakistani and Indian officials will meet in New Delhi on June 19 and 20 to discuss ways of improving nuclear security, one of a series of "confidence building measures". |
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