China Ready to Mediate Indo-Pak Talks
(Press Trust of India | Moscow | November 23, 2002)
China is ready to facilitate a political dialogue between India and Pakistan to resolve their outstanding issues, Chinese foreign minister Tang Jixuan today said.
'Indian and Pakistan must resolve their differences through talks. And we are always ready to facilitate their process,' Mr Tang told reporters here. Mr Tang is in Moscow to attend the Foreign Minister's level meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
Both Indian and Pakistan have expressed their desire to join this international organisation uniting China, RussiaKazakhstan, Khrghizstan, Tajikistan and Uzbeskistan.
Initially set up as a mechanism for confidence building along former Sino-Soviet border, SCO later declared anti-terror cooperation and economic interaction as its prime goals. At Moscow must the SCO Foreign Ministers have adopted an interim framework pact for SCO's cooperation with other international organisations like ASEAN.
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