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PM Gordon Brown has talks with Manmohan Singh
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Delhi: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met his
Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh here on Sunday. The
leaders discussed issues of mutual interest and concern
including, in particular, the situation in the aftermath
of the Mumbai terror attacks, the international economic
situation and the status of the negotiations in the ongoing
Doha round of Trade talks.
Senior
officials including Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon
and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister TKA Nair
were also present during the meeting. Besides meeting
Dr. Singh, Brown, who is here on a day's visit, was expected
to meet other leaders and express his government's solidarity
with India on taking effective counter-terrorism measures
against a menace that has acquired a global reach. He
is also expected to review bilateral ties with the Indian
leadership before embarking on a four-hour visit to Pakistan
on Sunday.
In
Pakistan, he will meet President Asif Ali Zardari. According
to diplomatic sources, he would be telling the leaders
of India and Pakistan that they stand to lose a lot from
the renewed tension and that the Mumbai incident indicates
that both of them share the threat posed by global terrorism.
Sources said that Brown's trip to the region was an unscheduled
one, and it specifically pertained to the tension between
the neighbours.
Brown
arrived in the Indian capital at 8.15 Saturday evening
for talks with the Indian leadership in the wake of last
month's terror attacks in Mumbai. British Foreign Secretary
David Miliband who spoke to Pakistan Foreign Minister
Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday and Pakistan President
Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday is said to have discussed
Prime Minister Brown's likely visit to Islamabad.
-Dec
14, 2008
