Manmohan arrives in Russia, set for Zardari meeting Tuesday

July 14th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his delegation arrived at this Egyptian town Thursday evening, just in time for Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to meet his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir. The Tuesday night meeting will be followed by talks between Manmohan Singh and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday 10.30 a.m.

July 11th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - The 'open' talk by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the need for Pakistan to curb terrorism against India in front of the media in Russia last month continues to reverberate between both sides. But Manmohan Singh Saturday clarified that he "had no intention to hurt the feelings of President Zardari".

July 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would meet Dr. Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt on July 16, the Pakistan Foreign Office has said.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will not visit Egypt for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit next month, his spokesman said, meaning that a planned meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not take place. At the same time, the formulation is not correct to say that Zardari had cancelled the visit as he was avoiding Manmohan Singh in the wake of the Indian prime minister's blunt message during their meeting in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told the NDTV news channel.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has termed the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia as positive but said no conditions should be laid down for resuming the sub-continental dialogue that New Delhi suspended in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. We are of the viewpoint that the negotiations should not be conditional as we cannot understand each other without negotiations so we expect to make dialogue result oriented and irreversible," Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told a private TV channel Wednesday.

June 17th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - India would review Pakistan's actions against anti-India terror outfits before deciding on resuming the composite dialogue mid-July, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday, a day after he met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Russia. The prime minister said he would wait for the outcome of the talks between the foreign secretaries of the two countries, who are expected to meet within a month, before taking a decision on resuming the composite dialogue that stalled after the Mumbai terror attacks nearly seven months ago.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit build here today.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Marking their first encounter since the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday shook hands and posed for cameras ahead of their talks in this Russian industrial city. Manmohan Singh and Zardari met at the summit of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Ball Room of Hotel Hyatt Regency where they are participating as observers.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg Monday night, will be meeting four heads of state, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, on the sidelines of the two multilateral summits here. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the first BRIC summit of Brazil, Russia, India and China and the summit of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) here.

June 15th, 2009 New Delhi, June 15 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh,left Monday for Russia on a three-day visit to attend two multilateral summits.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - In the first formal contact between India and Pakistan since the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday with a clear message that the resumption of dialogue will depend on Islamabad's "credible action" against terrorism. Manmohan Singh and Zardari will hold a half-an-hour meeting in the Silver Room of Hotel Hyatt Regency in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the industrial town located nearly 1,400 km from Moscow and famous as the site of the execution of the last Tsar of Russia and his family.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has arrived here in the Yekaterinburg city of Russia on a three-day visit to attend two multilateral summits-BRIC and SCO.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBERG - India will convey a clear message to Pakistan to take credible action against terrorism when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday for the first time after the Mumbai attacks. The meeting is more of an ice breaker and it will not lead to an immediate resumption of the dialogue between the two countries, stalled since the Mumbai attacks nearly seven months ago.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Putting speculation at rest, India Friday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg next week, but clarified there would no resumption of talks till Islamabad takes tangible action against terrorists. They will be in the same place at the same time.