Manmohan Singh, Obama to discuss Pakistan

October 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday congratulated US President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2009. "I have not heard the news, but if it is true, I would like to give my whole-hearted congratulations to President Obama," Manmohan Singh told reporters here.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated in Lok Sabha that India will not hold any talks with Pakistan unless the neighbouring country stops allowing its territory to be used by anti-India terror outfits.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday told parliament that Pakistan did not give any dossier to India on Balochistan when he met his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani in Egypt July 16. No such dossier was given, Manmohan Singh said while intervening in a debate in Lok Sabha on the July 16 India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh that delinked Islamabad's action on terror from the composite dialogue process.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet and discuss the nature of dialogue between the two countries in the future and will review action against terrorism. Manmohan Singh also made it clear that another Mumbai-like terrorist attack will affect dialogue of any kind.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime MInister Manmohan Singh briefly met with US President Barack Obama during the outreach meeting of G8 and G5 leaders at their summit here Thursday. Both leaders shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Indian officials said here.

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.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India hopes Pakistan would cooperate with it 'on all matters', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Friday soon after taking oath of office for his second term. 'Terrorism is a problem everywhere.

May 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said he was close to clinching 'an agreement' on all bilateral issues with then Pakistan military president Pervez Musharraf two years ago but the judiciary in that country halted that process. 'I and General (retd) Musharraf had reached an agreement in non-territorial solution to all problems but then General Musharraf got into difficulties with the chief justice (Iftikhar Chowdhary)...

April 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived here in wee hours of Saturday after attending "satisfactory" G-20 summit in London.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama Thursday held their first bilateral talks and agreed to intensify strategic partnership in all areas, including fighting terrorism. Developments in Pakistan and Afghanistan figured prominently in the discussion between the two leaders.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama held their first bilateral talks here Thursday and discussed new paths of collaboration in fighting terrorism and climate change. 'We held fruitful talks,' Manmohan Singh said after his meeting with Obama.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said Pakistan has to 'convince' India that it is 'absolutely sincere' in not allowing its territory to be used for terror acts against India as a 'minimum precondition' for further bilateral talks. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the G-20 summit here, Manmohan Singh also said that India had provided Pakistan with all the answers to its queries on the 26/11 terror attacks and the ball was now 'in Pakistan's court' on bringing the perpetrators to book.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with US President Barack Obama later Thursday in the first engagement between the two leaders. The two are here to attend the G20 summit.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Apart from the global financial crisis, India and the US will discuss the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in London Thursday. 'The situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan will figure in the discussions,' Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here Monday while referring to the first meeting between Manmohan Singh and Obama.

January 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has wished Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who underwent a successful heart surgery, 'a quick recovery'. Obama, in his message to mark India's Republic Day, said: 'I wish Prime Minister (Manmohan) Singh a quick recovery.' The prime minister underwent five bypass surgeries Saturday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.