New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma "interacted on several occasions" during the BRICS summit in Durban though the two sides did not hold delegation-level talks, an official said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Seeking to refute reports that the Indian delegation failed to hold a separate meeting with Zuma, who held bilateral talks with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, a spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said the prime minister had "adequate opportunity to interact with President Zuma on more than one occasion".
"In any multi-lateral meeting, the principals spend much time together, and this is the norm followed at the BRICS summit. The prime minister had adequate opportunity to interact with President Zuma on more than one occasion. If there is a feeling that there has not been an interaction, it is absolutely wrong," said spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin in response to a media query.
He said the two sides did not have any "structural delegation-to-delegation-level meetings due to scheduling issues, but that does not mean that there was any problem in terms of the principals meeting."...
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Farrukhabad: Positive talks are on with China over the border dispute, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said, hoping that desired results would be achieved. "Positive talks are going on over the border dispute with China and we hope that desired results would come from them," Khurshid, who was Farrukhabad in his parliamentary constituency, told reporters on Saturday. He hoped that the new leadership in China will facilitate bilateral talks....
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New Delhi: The Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold bilateral talks on May 24 and 25 in Islamabad during which a liberalised visa regime for the two countries is expected to be approved apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators of 26/11 attack. During the parleys, which were being held after a delay of five months, a decision on issuance of multiple-entry and reporting-free visas for...
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