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Indo-Pak crisis should be solved bilaterally: Russia, UK

Only direct contact between Islamabad and New Delhi can resolve the India-Pakistan conflict, British and Russian officials declared after talks in Moscow.

"The current dispute may be solved only by direct dialogue between the two countries," the joint group on cooperation against international terrorism said in a statement on Friday, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.

The group's chiefs, Russia's Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Britain's Steven Wright, also hailed 'the progress made at Almaty meetings' last week between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.

Vajpayee and Musharraf refused to meet face-to-face but even so Putin hailed the unsuccessful mediation effort as a 'very positive sign' that Islamabad and New Delhi were prepared to resolve their dispute peacefully.

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