Berlin: A series of bilateral ministerial meetings will set the stage for the second inter-governmental consultations at the Cabinet level between India and Germany, which gets under way here on Wednesday. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will receive India's External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid for an exchange of views before the Cabinet ministers from both sides hold their first joint meeting in this country, government sources said.
Rising tension on the Korean peninsula, Syrian conflict and the situation in Afghanistan are expected to be high on the agenda of their discussions. They will also examine ways to further strengthen bilateral relations and review the current state of the negotiations between India and the European Union on a free trade agreement (FTA).
Parallel to their meeting, German Economic Affairs Minister Philipp Roesler will hold discussions with Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. They will explore the possibilities to further expand bilateral trade as well as to step up German investments in India and vice-versa.
Sharma is also scheduled to meet German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. The two-day inter-governmental consultations will be formally opened with a dinner, Chancellor Angela Merkel will be hosting in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh....
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Egypt's President Mohammad Mursi will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, seeking to deepen relations with India and to make it a partner in his country's development. Mursi, who came to power after Egypt's first democratic elections in 2012, is likely to focus on betterment of trade ties besides boosting bilateral relations. ...
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Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the time has come for India and Pakistan to show greater understanding of each other's concerns and sensitivities and to "move beyond reiteration of their positions to more substantive results" in the peace process. Finding amicable and just solutions to resolve outstanding issues was important for Pakistan and India to ensure lasting peace and stability in the region, he said. Zardari made...
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11:48 PM, Apr 13, 2012
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11:00 PM, Apr 13, 2012
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01:19 PM, Apr 12, 2012
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02:53 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Washington: The US is unlikely to achieve much beyond resumption of logistic support from Pakistan, two former diplomats have warned. The warning comes ahead of the crucial meeting of Pakistan Parliament's discussion on its relationship with the US. "The hope of a common strategy in Afghanistan is completely unrealistic," Teresita and Howard Schaffer wrote in their latest piece on the website of the Foreign Policy magazine. They were recently in...
07:37 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Washington: America's relationship with Pakistan was and continues to be "complicated", the White House has said while acknowledging that in country's security interest and region's stability the bond is "important". "The (US-Pak) relationship has been and continues to be complicated but is very important to our national security interest, to our fight against al-Qaeda, and to the stability of the region," the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, told reporters...
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Washington: The unusual decision of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, to send a blunt message to Pakistan reflects that bilateral relations are in trouble and likely to deteriorate further, an influential American think tank has said. In a blunt statement, Mullen identified the Haqqani network as "a strategic arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency," which thereby made the spy agency complicit in the September...
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New Delhi: Citing the collapse of the Berlin Wall that unified Germany, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that differences between India and Pakistan may be resolved one day since the two cannot wish each other away and live in "perpetual tension". "I do not have the capacity to indulge in the romanticism that like Berlin Wall, one day the differences may go. How the course of history will take...
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