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Preparations on for Manmohan, Musharraf meet

By Our Diplomatic Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 24. The Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers, who will review the progress in the composite dialogue in New Delhi on September 5-6, will also prepare the ground for the first-ever meeting between the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.

Information available here suggests that Dr. Singh will address the U.N. General Assembly on September 23 and Gen. Musharraf on September 21.

A source in the External Affairs Ministry said today that the Foreign Secretaries would meet ahead of the Foreign Ministers for a day on September 4. They would sift some of the ideas that came up during the recently-concluded resumed bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan. All this would then be put to the Foreign Ministers, who would then decide how to take forward the dialogue process.

On Nepal, the Government feels that there is no need to panic as far as the availability of essential supplies is concerned. Information made available by Nepalese authorities to New Delhi suggested that some 1,000 vehicles has made trips to and fro on the highways leading to the Kathmandu Valley. India believes that the Nepalese Government is handling the situation as it should and there is no cause for any undue anxiety. New Delhi continues to believe that India and Nepal should fight the Maoists jointly since they have cross-border links.

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