NEW DELHI: Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the first half of July in a bid to defuse the six month old tension created by Islamabad’s “sponsoring” of terrorism and secessionism in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir an external affairs ministry spokesman said here Monday.
The spokesman said that exact date and venue for the high level dialogue would be decided through diplomatic channels.
Foreign secretary Mukchand Dubey sent for the Pakistan high commissioner Bashir Babar Monday morning and handed a written reply to Islamabad’s June 5 aide memoir proposing urgent talks at the foreign secretary level possibly in June.
“Government of India has agreed to the meeting between the foreign’ secretaries inspite of the fact that Pakistan’s response of June 5 leaves much to be desired,” the spokesman said.
Pakistan’s aide memoir was in response to India’s seven point military and non-military confidence building measures conveyed to Islamabad on May 28.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 29, 1990
