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Indo-Pak standoff likely to top
Bush-Putin summit agenda

Vinay Shukla in Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to take up India's case with his American counterpart George W Bush during the Kremlin summit on Friday by asking him to put pressure on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism, sources said.

The Russian presidential aide on foreign affairs, Sergei Prikhodko, who confirmed that the standoff will top the international agenda during talks between Bush and Putin, said Russia and US must work together to check further aggravation of the tensions between India and Pakistan.

"This is Kremlin's view and it intends to raise this issue at the summit talks," Prikhodko said in his pre-summit press briefing.

"Defusing the tension between India and Pakistan depends only on the will of the United States," a top Russian defence analyst General (retd) Leonid Ivashov said speaking at a meeting with the Moscow-based foreign press corps in the run-up to the visit by the US president.

PTI

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