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India, Russia, China agree to adopt common approach on Iraq
New York, Sept 25: India, Russia and China have agreed to adopt a common approach on the proposed new US sponsored resolution to Iraq as also on reforms of the United Nations and decided to set up an expert group that could identify the areas for trilateral cooperation among them.
New York, Sept 25: India, Russia and China have agreed to adopt a common approach on the proposed new US sponsored resolution to Iraq as also on reforms of the United Nations and decided to set up an expert group that could identify the areas for trilateral cooperation among them.
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, after a meeting
with his counterparts from Russia Igor Ivanov and China Li
Zhao Xing here yesterday, their second interface since they
form the troika last year, said they had very good
discussions on various issues including Iraq.
On Iraq, he said there was complete identity of approach that the problem in the war-ravaged country was not that of requirement of more troops but there was a need for a political solution.
There should be a movement in the direction of return of sovereignty to the Iraqi people and return of governance to them, Sinha said after nearly an hour-long luncheon meeting.
"This will be the approach and we decided to work together on the new resolution on Iraq," he said.
Bureau Report
On Iraq, he said there was complete identity of approach that the problem in the war-ravaged country was not that of requirement of more troops but there was a need for a political solution.
There should be a movement in the direction of return of sovereignty to the Iraqi people and return of governance to them, Sinha said after nearly an hour-long luncheon meeting.
"This will be the approach and we decided to work together on the new resolution on Iraq," he said.
Bureau Report