Manmohan to meet Chinese, Pakistan presidents (Lead)

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after China protested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India Wednesday criticised China for deciding to help Islamabad set up projects in the Pakistani part of Jammu and Kashmir which New Delhi claims as its own. We hope that the Chinese side will take a long term view of the India-China relations, and cease such activities in areas illegally occupied by Pakistan, external affairs ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said.

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India hit back at China Wednesday by asking it not to help set up projects in Pakistani Kashmir as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee rejected Chinese denunciation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to Arunachal Pradesh, a region Beijing claims. "We hope the Chinese side will take a long term view of India-China relations and cease such activities in areas illegally occupied by Pakistan," the external affairs ministry said, a day after Beijing came out with an unusually strong criticism of the prime minister's visit.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - MPs from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, will Tuesday meet President Pratibha Patil over the government's "capitulation" to Pakistan on terrorism and other foreign policy issues, party leaders said.

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 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, who met here late Tuesday, will meet once again Wednesday before the prime ministers of the two countries hold talks, official sources said. Holding out the possibility that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani would perhaps meet the press together after their talks Thursday morning, sources here said that the two foreign secretaries held one-on-one discussions for 90 minutes.

July 11th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - India wants Pakistan to punish those behind the Mumbai terror attack and is looking for a reaffirmation of this when he meets with his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. "I am looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Gilani (in Egypt).

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 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Leaders of India and Pakistan Tuesday asked their foreign secretaries to meet within a month with the sole agenda of reviewing the primary issue of cross- border terrorism that has plagued their ties. This was decided during the 40-minute talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari -- most of it alone -- their first since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

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 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 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.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will meet Pakistan more than halfway if Islamabad shows enough determination to prevent terrorist attacks launched from its soil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday. "If the leaders of Pakistan have the courage, determination and statesmanship to take this road to peace, we will meet them more than half way," Manmohan Singh told parliament.

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.

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 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet for the first time in London on April 2 on the sidelines of the Group of 20 major economies summit on the global financial crisis. Besides Manmohan Singh, Obama will have bilateral meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth II, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the White House announced Wednesday.