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By Amit Baruah
NEW DELHI, APRIL 8. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today met his predecessor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, L.K. Advani, and the former External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh, ahead of discussions with the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, on Monday and the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, at the end of next week. The discussions with the top BJP leaders and with the Left parties on Friday are part of the Government's efforts to evolve a consensus on key foreign policy issues. Mr. Wen arrived in Bangalore from Colombo today. After the meeting, Mr. Advani said there were references to Mr. Vajpayee's visit to Beijing in June 2003 and Islamabad in January 2004 and the need to maintain continuity in the position taken by different governments. Mr. Advani said the Government had briefed the BJP leaders on the current state of dialogue with Pakistan, adding that they were "working in the same direction" adopted by Mr. Vajpayee during his Pakistan visit. The Government functionaries have made repeated references to the January 6, 2004 agreement between Mr. Vajpayee and General Musharraf on not permitting the use of Pakistan territory to "support terrorism" in any manner.
"New Delhi hopeful"
The Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, said today that New Delhi was hopeful of resolving its border dispute with China but cautioned against expecting overnight results after Mr. Wen's visit. "They [Dr. Singh and Mr. Wen] will discuss how to solve this [border] problem, about trade and how to maintain peace," Mr. Patil was quoted as saying after distributing gallantry awards to 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. "We should not expect that talks will be held today and tomorrow there will be results. But we are going on the right path and in the present circumstances, we are very hopeful [of resolving this dispute]," he said. The Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, held discussions with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, this morning to fine-tune the agreements that are to be signed at Hyderabad House on April 11.
Finishing touches
Tomorrow, the National Security Adviser, M.K. Narayanan, and the Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister, Dai Bingguo, will hold talks in their capacity as "Special Representatives" to address the boundary dispute. They are expected to give the finishing touches to the "guiding principles and political parameters" of a possible boundary settlement. In the next phase of discussions, they are expected to work on a "framework" to resolve the boundary dispute. While Mr. Narayanan will have his first formal meeting with Mr. Dai since being appointed Special Representative, four earlier rounds of meetings of the "Special Representatives have taken place, with India being initially represented by Brajesh Mishra and then by the late J.N. Dixit.
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