New Delhi: Government would await the court verdict on Ayodhya while encouraging negotiations between parties to the dispute to find an amicable solution, President A P J Abdul Kalam said today (June7, 2004).

In his address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, he however made it clear that a settlement through negotiations must receive legal sanction.

He said the Government was also committed to implement the Protection of Places of Worship Act 1992.