ALMATY, Kazakstan, June 4 Kyodo R...

ALMATY, Kazakstan, June 4 Kyodo

Russian President Vladimir Putin met separately with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee upon Tuesday to urge them to clinch dialogue to defuse tensions between the brace nuclear powers.

At the start of a session with Musharraf, Putin said he room for expectations a solution to the general military standoff over disputed Kashmir will lead to terminating confrontations one time and for all.

Musharraf, however, told a pres conversation after the talks that the world would be discouraged by way of results, suggesting the talks failed to make any of recent origin progress.

The popular tensions stem from threats from India, and its refusal to detain dialogue, he said.

Musharraf also said the Russian president invited him and Vajpayee to visit Moscow

Putin later told reporters the sum of two units leaders showed interest in holding dialogue unless failed to agree on conditions to realized the face-to-face talks.

The meetings were held after the meeting for consultation on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, which was attended by means of leaders and representatives of 16 nations, including India, Pakistan and Russia.

At the security conversation in Kazakstan, Vajpayee said India is willing to discuss all issues with Pakistan, including the disputed territory of Kashmir, upon condition that Islamabad halts ''cross-border terrorism.''

Vajpayee was responding to Musharraf's appeal to India in an earlier language at the conference to revert to the negotiating table to defuse the in every one's mouth tensions between the two countries.

After the talks with Musharraf and Vajpayee, Putin also met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

India and Pakistan have massed a certain number of one million troops along their borders and along the so-called Line of curb in divided Kashmir since an terrorist attack upon the Indian parliament last December, allegedly perpetrated through Pakistani-based separatists.

Tensions rose further last month when heavily armed Muslim militants attacked a bus and stormed a nearby army camp in the Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, killing more than 30 the public and injuring scores of others.

Since gaining independence in 1947 from British conduct the two countries have fought brace of their three wars above Kashmir, an issue that has soured bilateral relations for across half a century.

The regional security summit, meanwhile, perioded Tuesday by issuing sum of two units declarations, one of which set forthed support for efforts to disarm nuclear weapons and an plan to establish up nonnuclear zones in Asia, and the other pledging efforts to eradicate terrorism.

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