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Russia's warning to Pakistan

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, MAY 15. Outside forces, above all in Pakistan, must not try to play an anti-India card and use the change of guard in India for their selfish interests, Russia's top foreign policy official said.

"The leadership in Pakistan and India's new leaders should do all they can to keep going the process of normalising Indo-Pakistani relations, suppressing trans-border terrorism and reviving business contacts and transport links in keeping with the understandings reached under the outgoing government in India," Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, told the Itar-Tass news agency.

He said the change of government in India should not have "any serious implications for our bilateral ties."

"There is a consensus in India on the need to maintain and advance strategic partnership with Russia and we expect this policy to continue (under the new government)," Mr. Trubnikov said in Ottawa, Canada, where he is attending international security consultations.

An information website close to the Kremlin said that the people of India had rejected the economic, social and political course pursued by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

"Economic growth in recent years has largely benefited a narrow segment of the population we in Russia call `oligarchs' as exemplified by Anil Ambani of the Reliance group," the strana.ru website said.

"Therefore voters turned away from the BJP and favoured parties that paid attention to the needs of the common people."

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