KARACHI, Sept 4 (News Agencies) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will meet Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in New York on September 25th for talks on Kashmir, Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar said Tuesday.
"The two leaders will meet in New York on September 25th," Sattar told a news conference on his return from the Durban conference against racism.
This will be the second summit between the two leaders since their mid-July talks in the Indian city of Agra ended without agreement on a joint statement.
"We do not expect finalization of any draft at the New York meeting, but both leaders may decide how to proceed further," Sattar said.
He described Kashmir as the core issue and the only obstacle in normalization of relations between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.
Sattar said Pakistan was willing to talk on other issues, "but in dialogue there are some priority issues".
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, which is divided between the two countries and claimed by both. The current conflict in the Indian zone has claimed about 35,000 lives.
India blames Pakistan for "cross-border terrorism", but Pakistan denies the charge.
"The Kashmiri struggle is indigenous and the Indian response was not political and peaceful as they let lose a reign of terror," Sattar said.
He said India was cynically trying to portray the Kashmiris' legitimate struggle for self-rule as terrorism and extremism.
The foreign minister also reiterated Pakistan's commitment to abide by United Nations sanction against Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, and assured the safety of U.N. monitoring teams expected to be deployed in neighboring states.
"It is the obligation of any country to provide security to foreign dignitaries, observers, and there is nothing special about it," he said.
Pakistan is accused of militarily aiding the Taliban in breach of a U.N. arms embargo imposed earlier this year.
"We have been saying that we never supplied weapons to Afghanistan, but we will implement the U.N. resolution," Sattar said.
Pro-Taliban groups in Pakistan have threatened to attack the monitors.
