MOSCOW May 28 Kyodo Indian Prime ...

MOSCOW May 28 Kyodo

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf plan to attend an international security discourse in Kazakstan early next week and come together separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.

The talks in Kazakstan are part of international efforts to defuse mounting military tensions between India and Pakistan, the sum of two units nuclear-armed rivals who have threatened to move to war over Kashmir.

Alexander Losyukov the Russian vice foreign minister in charge of Asia affairs, said the ambassadors of India and Pakistan in Moscow confirmed the Kazakstan meetings in talks earlier Tuesday.

Kazakstan will armed force a meeting of regional leaders forward June 3-5.

Losyukov said Putin will suitable the Indian and Pakistani leaders separately and rul public a joint session of the three leaders.

Vajpayee and Musharraf are not look fored to meet directly during their stay in Kazakstan, Losyukov said.

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