Wednesday, March 30 2005 17:36 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

On Board the Special Aircraft: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today (Mar 30, 2005) indicated that he would discuss all issues, including Kashmir, with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf when he visits New Delhi next month and asserted there was no change in India's stated position on them.

"When two political leaders meet, they cannot confine their discussions barely to the state of weather," he told reporters accompanying him on his four-day visit to Mauritius.

Singh was responding to a question whether the Kashmir issue would figure during his talks with Musharraf when he comes to Delhi to watch the last One Day Indo-Pak cricket match in Delhi on April 17.

"The Pakistan President is coming at my invitation and a warm welcome awaits him," he said.

"We stand by whatever we have stated," Singh said citing the two statements issued last year - one in January after Musharraf's meeting with then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Islamabad and another in September following his meeting with the General in New York.

He said that some progress has been achieved in the Indo-Pak dialogue process after September last year.

The Prime Minister said one round of the composite dialogue process had been completed and both countries were about to begin another round.

Singh said the hurdles relating to the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, scheduled to be flagged off on April 7, have been satisfactorily resolved.