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Annan lauds Vajpayee, hopeful of Indo-Pak peace
Wednesday, June 11 2003 12:36 Hrs (IST)
United Nations: Appreciating Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's peace initiative, United Nations
Secretary-general Kofi Annan has hoped that both India and Pakistan would be able to resolve all
issues through negotiations.
Annan expressed his appreciation on June 10 during a forty-minute meeting with External Affairs
Minister Yashwant Sinha who explained to the Secretary-general the salient points of the initiative aimed
at improving relations with Pakistan.
During the wide-ranging discussions, Sinha stressed on the need for the United Nations to ensure that
contracts under Iraq's 'oil-for-food' programme signed before the United States military action are
honoured.
India is among the countries, which were in the process of executing the contracts signed by the
Saddam Hussein government and approved by the United Nations when the war broke out.
The programme, now being implemented by the United Nations, is to be phased within six months and
money remaining in "oil for food" programme would be transferred to the Iraq Development Fund which
would be run by the United States-led coalition.
PTI
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