No bilateral meeting between Singh and Gilani in Bhutan

SINGH-GILANI

New Delhi, Apr 22 (PTI) No bilateral meeting has been
fixed so far between Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh
and his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani in Bhutan
during the SAARC Summit, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said
on Thursday.
"As of now, no such meeting has been set up between
the Prime Minister and Gilani," she said, adding Singh will be
having separate meetings with leaders from Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan besides Afghanistan.
Maintaining that the situation was not ripe for
resumption of the composite dialogue, stalled in the wake of
the Mumbai terror attacks, Rao said India wants action against
the perpetrators and dismantling of terror infrastructure in
Pakistan.
"The situation has not really changed in that regard
because we need action in terms of movement in the Mumbai
trials in Pakistan.
"The levels of infiltration still are cause of concern
in the last few months and terror infrastructure and
activities of terror groups from territories controlled by
Pakistan is a matter of serious concern," she said when asked
if the situation was ripe for restarting the dialogue process.
She also said the Pakistan has not got back to India
on the dossiers handed over to them at the Foreign Secretary-
level talks here in February containing information against
terrorists and terror groups involved in anti-India activities
including mastermind of Mumbai attack and Jamaat-ud-dawa chief
Hafiz Saeed.
Asked whether India has received any request from
Pakistan for the meeting in Thimpu, Rao said "there has been
no request from Pakistan as of now."
Asked about the possibility of any interaction between
Singh and Gilani, she said "I do not really want to forecast,
what is going to happen but let me say, dialogue is always
useful. It helps clear the atmosphere. Specially between
neighbours such as India Pakistan, dialogue is the really the
way forward".
Singh leaves for Thimpu on April 28 for the two-day
SAARC Summit which has climate change as its central theme.
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