Moscow: The issue of terrorism is expected to top the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin's scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, the Kremlin said on September 23.

Official sources said that anti-terror combat would figure prominently in Putin's parleys with Vajpayee and Musharraf.

Putin is expected to remind Musharraf of his promises to end cross border terrorism against India given in Almaty in May 2002 and his Moscow visit in February 2003.

The Russian President is leaving on September 23 for the 5-day US visit during which he will also address the UNGA on September 25 and hold informal summit with the US President George Bush at Camp David on September 26 and 27.

During his 25-minute address to the UNGA, Putin is to voice Russian stand on resolving regional conflicts, anti-terror combat, nuclear non-proliferation and role of the United Nations Organisation in the international process.

In New York, Putin is also to hold a trilateral meeting with the French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at which the German proposal on the UN Security Council resolution on Iraq would be discussed by them, ITAR-TASS reported quoting Kremlin foreign policy aide Sergei Prikhodko.

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