Kuala Lumpur: Non-aligned Foreign Ministers on February 22 failed to agree on a draft resolution on terrorism with India rejecting host Malaysia's proposal for a separate conference on terror and a Pakistani move for a mechanism to resolve intra- NAM disputes.

Ahead of the two-day summit beginning on February 24, New Delhi has made it clear that unless a consensus on the draft on terrorism was evolved, there was no point in going for a NAM conference on terrorism.

In some plain-speaking, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said such a conference would only bring over differences to the fore rather than evolve a consensus.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who arrived on February 22 to lead the Indian delegation at the summit, said Pakistan's involvement in aiding and abetting cross- border terrorism is likely to be taken up at the meeting.

Apart from differences on terrorism, the foreign ministers also differed on the resolution on Iraq finally accepting a diluted document that deleted a reference to "threat of use of force", an apparent allusion to Washington's moves for a strike on Iraq.

PTI