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Putin to meet Vajpayee, Musharraf next month

In a bid to lower Indo-Pak tensions, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf separately on the sidelines of the two-day Conference and Interaction on Confidence Building Measures in Asia, beginning June three in Kazakhstan.

"Putin has referred to his visit to Almaty where he hoped to meet Vajpayee and Musharraf separately and that through these meetings, tension in the region could be de-escalated," an external affairs ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.

A Russian foreign office statement issued on May 24 'unequivocally' stated that there was need for Pakistan to check cross-border terrorism and infiltration if tension in the region has to go down.

"And this is where the action should be," the Indian spokesperson said.

"Pakistan," she said, "needed to move away from its long-held policy of compulsive, obsessive hostility towards India and the Indian people."

India is expected to convey its concern over Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism to leaders of Asian countries during the conference in Kazakhstan.

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