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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45449)	1/4/2004 8:31:06 AM
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: India and Pakistan leaders met Sunday, crowning the opening of a landmark South Asian summit. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali entered one-on-one talks straight after the opening of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at Islamabad's Convention Center. The meeting has taken place, it was a good meeting, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told reporters after the surprise meeting, as he entered his own bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart Yashwant Sinha. The two premiers met privately for 16 minutes before being joined by their foreign ministers and foreign secretaries for another seven minutes of talks. It was the first official Indian-Pakistani talks since July 2001, when a failed summit was held in the Indian city of Agra. Foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan called the meeting a ‘courtesy call’ while Indian Foreign Minister said that "close cooperation and other matters of mutual interest" were discussed in a "warm and cordial" atmosphere. Sinha had remarked on the eve of the summit that “the winds of change are blowing in the SAARC region." Another meeting was also expected between the two prime ministers.