Kuala Lumpur: Even as Pakistan sought the support of the international community to settle its dispute with India, New Delhi firmly stuck to its stand that no country should bring bilateral issues into the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) agenda.

NAM must maintain its role as a voice of the developing countries in facing the enormous challenges ahead and not bring in bilateral issues into its agenda, Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal told reporters on February 22.

"Our position is that bilateral issues must not come into the NAM agenda. If NAM gets involved, then (it will) not be able to put up a united front to the rest of the world."

"We are going to revitalise. So, the first thing is that we should not devitalise ourselves by starting to debate on bilateral issues," he said on the fringes of the ongoing NAM summit.

Sibal also pointed out that issues such as terrorism should be addressed very carefully by the movement.

Meanwhile, Pakistan on February 22 again raised the Kashmir issue in the Foreign Ministers' meeting.

Calling for unity among NAM members, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Kurshid Mehmud Kasuri said, "We have more disputes amongst us than with the outside world. Conflicts within and between our nations incapacitate us in the larger community of nations," he said.

"We must devise a mechanism to settle our disputes," he said, adding, "In South Asia alone, a billion and a half people live under the shadow of constant conflict. The Jammu and Kashmir dispute has divided our region for a half a century. This dispute must be resolved justly and amicably."

PTI