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India, Pakistan Schedule Talks for This Month
India and Pakistan yesterday agreed to a new schedule of talks to continue a peace dialogue that the two nuclear-armed rivals initiated earlier this year, according to the Los Angeles Times (see GSN, May 24). Experts from the two countries are now set to meet June 19 and 20 in New Delhi to discuss nuclear confidence-building measures, said Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh. Following the expert-level talks, the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries are scheduled to meet for talks on June 27 and 28, Singh said. “The past has been scribbled with booby traps on the ground and high-tension wires above,” Singh said. “We want to put an end to that. This relation should be based on trust, not mistrust — frankness, not fear,” he added (Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times, June 2). Singh yesterday also proposed that India, Pakistan and China develop a “common nuclear doctrine,” according to Agence France-Presse. “This is a matter that needs to be discussed at the highest level,” he said. Pakistan called Singh’s proposal “innovative” and said that it needed to be studied further, AFP reported (Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, June 2).
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