rediff.com: Pakistan cannot set deadline for SAARC summit: Sinha


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Pakistan cannot set deadline for SAARC summit: Sinha

"One country cannot set a deadline for another," External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha asserted at Seoul in response to Pakistan foreign office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan's statement on Monday.

Khan's statement said Islamabad, the host for the next summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, will set a date for holding it in January and give India and Bhutan a deadline to respond.

According to Khan, five of the seven SAARC members have already agreed to the summit being held from January 11 to 13.

But Sinha, who is in Seoul to participate in the second ministerial conference of democracies, argued that one country is not supposed to set a deadline for another. "Nobody can set a deadline. SAARC works on consensus," he said.

PTI

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