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SHARM-el-SHEIKH, EGYPT: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Secretaries of the two countries will meet here tomorrow to review the progress made by Islamabad to bring to book perpetrators of Mumbai attacks.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will discuss with his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir the primary issue of terrorism and what Islamabad has done to end terrorism directed against India.
The relations between India and Pakistan have been under "considerable stress" and the prime cause for it was terror acts emanating from Pakistan.
The meeting between two prime ministers expected on July 16 on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Summit (NAM) here will take place two months after the Indian leader met President Asif Ali Zardari in Yekaterinburg in Russia.
During that meeting, Singh had delivered a stern message to Zardari in the full glare of media that his mandate was to tell Pakistan that it has to take action against terrorism emanating from its soil against India.
Ahead of his meeting with Gilani, Singh has made it clear that New Delhi would "do all that is necessary" to resolve all outstanding issues if Pakistan takes "credible action" to deal with terrorist elements targeting India.
Noting that he was looking forward to his meeting with Gilani, Singh said he was hoping that the Pakistani leader would give a "renewed reaffirmation" to bring the perpetrators of 26/11 attacks to justice and that they would not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terror acts directed against India.
During his stay in Egypt, Singh would hold bilateral meetings with leaders of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and National Security Adviser M K Narayanan are part of Singh’s delegation to the NAM Summit.
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