Riaz Khan and Shyam Saran would be deliberating on Kashmir and peace and security.
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said enough time was required to allow diplomatic efforts to resolve Iran's nuclear issue and India was encouraging the European Union and Russia to help in accomplishing this.
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said enough time was required to allow diplomatic efforts to resolve Iran's nuclear issue and India was encouraging the European Union and Russia to help in accomplishing this.
Iran accused the under secretary of state of breaching established diplomatic norms by issuing a statement against it in a third country.
"It is not going to be replicated to other countries," US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said.
Foreign secretaries of the two countries will meet soon in Islamabad.
India said the composite dialogue will need to be carried forward to address important issues.
India said on Friday that its efforts to help rebuild Afghanistan are being hampered by Pakistan, which lies between the two countries and refuses to allow Indian aid to be shipped through its territory.
Describing the meeting as "a very good one", Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters that basically what 'she (Rice) did was to set the stage for the important meeting between President Bush and the prime minister'
This will be the first meeting of the strategic dialogue between India and China and the main focus will be the big global issues.
The prime minister has accepted the invitation. The dates will be finalised through diplomatic channels.
He maintained that India cannot undertake any obligations going beyond the July 18 Joint Statement and the Separation Plan.
'We will have a joint review of the entire gamut of the composite dialogue process and prepare the agenda' for the meeting between the foreign ministers, Khokar said.
The high commissioner was recalled for refusing visas to some people of the Indian community there.
Ahead of official-level consultations in Washington on the Indo-American nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said it was for the United States to decide on taking the agreement forward.
"It is surprising that on such a vital issue, the government has sought to keep political parties, Parliament and the nuclear scientific community in the dark," said the CPI (M).
The Iranian nuclear issue, which threatens to snowball into a major issue, is also likely to figure at the two-day talks.
The international community must focus not only on recipient states but on supplier states as well, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said.
Saran said there was considerable sentiment in African countries which recognised that the biggest beneficiary of Security Council reforms would be Africa.
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and Minister of State for External Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh have made it clear that the general will not talk anything else but cricket.
The postponement came after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his inability to attend owing to situation in neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka assured that it will provide foolproof security to the Indian cricket team in Colombo.
N-tests: India will pay if it violates moratorium
The US response to this proposal would be known after Burns discusses it with Indian officials when he is in Delhi this week.
Noting that 'progress' was being made in parleys, the sources said the two countries were making 'every effort to conclude or substantially conclude the deal before the visit of President Bush.'
The further expansion and upgrade of the Chinese military does not augur well for India, which continues to confront an increasingly belligerent China on its borders, notes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also alleged that foreign policy has been reduced to photo-ops and a chest-thumping exercise and is being used to secure contracts for a businessman.
'My understanding is that by the time President Xi Jinping came for the Chennai summit [2019], he had already instructed his army to undertake the action in Galwan in the summer of 2020.'
Modi's unexpected announcement of achieving net zero by 2070 may have neatly deflected the pressures on India to sign up to an ambitious pledge but it does nothing to dispel the ecological emergency that threatens all life on the planet, , points out former forerign secretary Shyam Saran, the prime minister's special envoy and chief negotiator on climate change 2007-2010.
A red carpet will be rolled out to facilitate Shyam Saran Negi to cast his vote in the Himachal assembly elections without any hassle.
The fault line between the West and Russia has widened into a deep chasm and this is likely to endure in the foreseeable future. Far from forcing its way into the European tent, Russia may be reduced to the status of an even more sullen and weakened bystander on its periphery. The US appears to have won this hand with little cost to itself, observes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
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