LoC incidents won't affect peace process:
Khurshid
Friday January 18, 2013 05:29:42 PM,
IANS
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Jaipur: Welcoming the
"positive statements" coming from Pakistan for talks to
de-escalate tensions along the border, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Friday said the recent incidents won't affect the
peace process between the two countries.
"There is a positive content in the statement that has come from
Pakistan foreign minister and high commissioner to India. It is
welcome and it should be getting an appropriate response from our
side," Khurshid told reporters here.
He said the matter will come up for discussion at the three-day
Congress Chintan Shivir here.
"Peace process is not going to be undermined by these incidents.
We hope that we will find a resolution to all these matters and we
have treated the whole issue with great care and the closest
attention possible," Khurshid said.
"Peace process is something in which we have invested a lot...and
it was done because it is strategically and tactically important
for India's role in the world," he said.
On the talks offer by Pakistan, Khurshid said: "We are trying to
work on it and the prime minister has been trying to ensure things
remain in control and our concerns are addressed and situation
doesn't deteriorate. All these things have to be kept in mind."
Khurshid had Thursday declined to commit himself to accepting
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar's offer for bilateral
talks, saying that India cannot move forward for talks just on the
basis of "one statement".
Ties between the two neighbours have been strained ever since the
Jan 6 killing of a Pakistani soldier allegedly in firing by Indian
troops.
Two days later, Pakistani soldiers brutally killed two Indian
soldiers, including beheading one of them, near the LoC.
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