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Putin will take up Kashmir with Vajpayee: Pak
By K J M Varma in Islamabad
October 18, 2003 15:34 IST

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to discuss with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee some of the issues relating to Kashmir and resumption of India-Pak dialogue.

Vajpayee is scheduled to visit to Moscow next month.

Musharraf met Putin on the sidelines of the just concluded Organisation of Islamic Conference Summit at Putrajaya in Malayasia.

Asked about OIC support to the Kashmir issue, he said the OIC Contact Group has extended its unanimous support to the Kashmiris' cause.

On the OIC conference, Musharraf said the establishment of the commission to restructure and revitalise the OIC is a
great achievement and victory for the Muslim world.

"The establishment of the commission is the most concrete step of the OIC as 57 member countries must act in
unison through an institutional arrangement with dynamism and authority," he said.

Musharraf said that in his address at the Summit he made it very clear that there is no other way to move forward.

"Individual ideas can be implemented through putting them together by institutions and I am glad that this was realised by the leaders of the Muslim countries", he said.

 

K J M Varma in Islamabad
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