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Vajpayee-Musharraf landmark meet today

PMs of nuke rivals hold first bilateral session

AFP, Islamabad
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will meet today on the sidelines of a regional summit, a Pakistani official announced.
"The meeting will take place sometime tomorrow (Monday)," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told a press briefing last night, after Vajpayee issued a request to meet the Pakistani President.
Vajpayee earlier held icebreaking talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali after the opening of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (Saarc).
Vajpayee and Musharraf have not spoken formally since July 2001 when they attended a bilateral summit in the Indian city ofAgra.
They shook hands two years ago at the last SAARC summit in Kathmandu.
The talks between Vajpayee and Jamali were the first between the bitter nuclear rivals since they came to the brink of war in 2002.
"The meeting has taken place. It was a good meeting," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told reporters.
"Our prime minister met prime minister Jamali at a courtesy call
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which lasted for half an hour, including 15 minutes of one-on-one," Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha told reporters.
"It was a very warm and cordial call."
Yesterday's surprise talks came just ahead of a meeting between Kasuri and Sinha at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel.
Indian foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna called the foreign ministers' meeting a "courtesy
"Both expressed satisfaction at the progress in bilateral relations and discussed ways to maintain the momentum," Sarna said.
State-run Pakistan Television (PTV) showed footage of Jamali, Vajpayee and senior officials sitting together.
It said the two met one-on-one for 16 minutes and with their aides for seven minutes.
The two premiers "began meeting soon after the inaugural session" of the 12th Saarc summit, PTV reported, describing the atmosphere as "friendly and cor-