NEW DELHI: India Monday said Pakistan was yet to show concrete measures on the ground to prove that secessionists in Kashmir and Punjab were not getting support from its territory External affairs minister Madhavsinh Solanki, told visiting ‘Swiss vice-president and foreign. Minister Rene Felber that a special envoy of the Pakistan prime minister had made such a commitment during his recent visits here.
We are waiting expectantly for: the promised concrete measures on the ground,” an external affairs ministry spokesman quoted Solanki as saying.
Besides his 90-minute official talks with Solanki, the Swiss vice resident spent about half an hour with. Prime minister P.V. Narasimha Road.
He told Rao that there was great interest in Switzerland in India’s new economic policies and top multinationals were formulating new ideas to respond positively to the incentives that India was now providing to foreign investment.
Switzerland as a country with a Jarge number of small and medium scale firms would like to enter into appropriate cooperation with India, he told Solanki.
Febler also said a billeted agreement on avoidance of double taxation would greatly improve his country’s investment in India.
During his talks with Solanki, the Swiss vice president shared India concern with the rising tide of fundamentalism in various parts of the world.
Felber said his country particularly observed with a degree of fear the rise of fundamentalism in the region bordering the Mediterranean and elsewhere in West Asia.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 11, 1991
