Indo-Pak FMs to meet in New York

Pakistan's Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and India's Yashwant Sinha will meet at two South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ministerial meetings in the last week of September, Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said.

"They will meet twice in New York at the two SAARC meetings," Khan told AFP.

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A meeting between the Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers would be the first since the nuclear-capable enemies came close to war last year.

However, bilateral Pakistani-Indian issues were not on the agenda.

"They are meeting within the context of a SAARC forum. Not on bilateral issues," Khan said.

The SAARC meetings are due to be held within days of the United Nations General Assembly session on September 24 and 25, which will be addressed by both Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

There has been no formal dialogue between the neighbours since July 2001, when Musharraf met Vajpayee in India's ancient city of Agra.