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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday avoided giving a direct reply to a question on resumption of the Indo-Pak dialogue at his joint press conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
"If I have to meet General Musharraf, I don't have to go to New York. We can meet in Delhi or Islamabad," Vajpayee quipped.
Schroeder told the questioner that the Agra process could be resumed and the prime minister had taken the necessary steps towards this end.
Answering a question on the war on terrorism in Afghanistan, the German leader said, "I consider the military action in Afghanistan a necessary step. We want to continue and we will continue to argue in its favour."
But he asserted that the political and humanitarian aspects of the global coalition and the war against terrorism had also to be taken into consideration because the common Afghan people had been victims of the extremist Taleban regime.
Earlier, welcoming the chancellor, Vajpayee underscored that the world should move forward to harmonise national laws for cooperation in choking off all forms of assistance to terrorists and their organisations.
The prime minister said he discussed with Schroeder the global campaign against terrorism and the need to pursue it to its logical conclusion.
"We should identify and outlaw individual terrorists, so that they cannot carry on their activities under the banner of a new organisation," he told Schroeder.
"We underlined the importance of political will for firm action against every organisation and country, which funds, arms, trains or sponsors terrorists," he said.
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