India and Pakistan are trying to restart peace process

15 07 2010

Yesterday - 16:01 The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers met today in order to revive peace talks broken off after the attacks in Mumbai, although significant steps seem difficult, given the climate of mistrust that exists between the two old rivals. Continue reading this news yesterday, shortly after his arrival in Islamabad, the Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna said he would put pressure on Pakistan to urge the process related to the attacks of 2008 in the Indian financial center, which caused the death of 166 people. Shortly before the declaration of Krishna, the Indian Express newspaper had published the comments of the Secretary of State of India GK Pillai, who accused Pakistan's main intelligence service, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) of orchestrating the ' attack in Mumbai. Observations of Indian authorities are signs of the relationship of distrust between the two neighboring countries, both nuclear powers, which have fought three wars of their independence from Britain in 1947. Both were urged to stop tensions from the United States, that that their rivalry have any adverse effects on neighboring Afghanistan. The talks between Krishna and the Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi could shape a new format for negotiations, which replace the process peace of 2004, known as the "composite dialogue" that India has suspended following the attacks in Mumbai. This new format could revive the peace process by the political impasse facing: India can not resume talks until when Pakistan will not have punished the perpetrators of Mumbai. "Hopefully, after these negotiations, our two countries can agree on a process that remains with the support of both and can not be suspended," he The spokesman said Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Basit before the meeting. "If we do not speak each other and discuss all issues that have for decades hampered the normalization of relations … we believe that there can be cooperative efforts. We look at these negotiations in a truly positive." The crucial points in the middle of negotiations are the subject of security for India, particularly as regards the issue of attacks in Mumbai, while Pakistan wants a definitive definition of the dispute over the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, the center of the dispute that gave rise to three three wars the two countries. - The Reuters news site www.reuters.it other in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia


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