Nirupama Rao to meet Afghanistan Foreign Minister, President

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Minister David Miliband has praised Indias work to bring development to embattled Afghanistan. We appreciate and support the impressive development work that India is doing in Afghanistan, Miliband told IANS at a Diwali charity dinner hosted by Indian-born industrialist Raj Loomba Thursday.

October 9th, 2009 KABUL - Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has arrived in Afghan capital Kabul to assess the situation arising out of Thursday's bomb blast outside the Indian embassy there, which claimed 17 lives and injured over 60. Rao will consult with senior embassy officials on the next steps for ensuring the safety and security of Indian embassy staff, sources said.

September 27th, 2009 NEW YORK - Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir here on Saturday to prepare the ground for the crucial talks between their foreign ministers where India is expected to demand speedy action against 26/11 perpetrators. The meeting between Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir came on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, marking the first high-level contact between the two countries since the Prime Ministers of the two countries met at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on July 16.

September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on September 26 followed by foreign ministers' level talks on September 27 in New York, resuming the dialogue process on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Monday confirmed that a meeting with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao would be held on September 26 in New York.

September 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The renewed architecture of India-US bilateral dialogue and preparations for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's State visit to the US in November were the focus of a day of hectic diplomacy by Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. Rao Monday met Deputy Secretary of State James B.

September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Hoping to resume the stalled peace process and discuss "the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir", Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said Monday that he would meet his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao in New York Sep 26. The meeting of the two foreign secretaries will be followed by talks between India's External Affairs Minister S.M.

September 16th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao here on Tuesday said that India would give priority to implement the recently concluded 34-point agreement with Nepal. During a meeting with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, the two agreed to implement the 34-point agreement signed between Nepal and India at the earliest and enhance cooperation between the security agencies of the two countries to bolster border security.

September 15th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala and discussed various bilateral issues including greater sharing of vital information between the two countries. According to Nepalnews, both the leaders also discussed electricity import from India, signing of extradition treaty and the agreements reached during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's visit to India last month.

September 14th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who arrived here on a two-day visit, will meet President Ram Baran Yadav and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala today. Nirupama Rao's visit is aimed at working out the strategy for implementation of the 34-point agreement between Nepal and India signed during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's India visit, last month.

August 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold talks in New York in September when the foreign ministers of both countries attend the United Nations General Assembly session. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he would like the foreign secretaries of the two countries to meet as soon as possible.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan are expected to meet again next month to set up the agenda for the scheduled talks between the Foreign Ministers of both countries on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The UN General Assembly is scheduled to be held in mid-September, so it is pertinent that the Foreign Secretaries of both India and Pakistan would meet before that, sources said.

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 2nd, 2009 WUHAN - India's Ambassador to China and the new Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao, said that she is looking forward to her new assignment with optimism and is ready for the challenges that comes with job. "I will look forward to the new assignment with great deal of optimism and sense of anticipation.

April 29th, 2009 1 German soldier killed, 9 wounded in AfghanistanBERLIN — Two attacks on German forces in Afghanistan killed one soldier and wounded nine Wednesday as Germany's foreign minister began a two-day visit to the country. Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived for the previously unannounced visit to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his foreign and interior ministers, and international representatives in Kabul.

March 17th, 2009 KABUL - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that his country was allowing cargo supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan through its territory to cooperate with the stabilisation of the war-torn country. 'Terrorism and drug trafficking are the main obstacles before the peace and stability in Afghanistan,' Lavrov told reporters through an interpreter in a press conference in Kabul.