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Government emissary K C Pant will meet a delegation of the Congress in New Delhi on Saturday.
This will be the first of a series of meeting Pant has lined up with various national political parties.
The delegation, comprising Ghulam Nabi Azad and Pranab Mukherjee, will explain the party's stand on Jammu and Kashmir.
During his visit to Srinagar, Leh and Jammu, a number of political delegations had met Pant.
Among those who met him were Shabir Shah of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, former J&K chief ministers Syed Mir Qasim and G M Shah, former Karnataka chief minister Ramakrishna Hedge, Minister of State for Commerce Omar Abdullah, the Jammu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and political and religious leaders of Ladakh and Kargil.
Though Pant has asked the Hurriyat Conference to join the talks, its leaders have so far refrained from doing so. This is despite a statement from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the Hurriyat should talk to Pant before thinking of meeting Pakistani military leader, General Pervez Musharraf.
"There is no change in the Hurriyat Conference stand on meeting Pant. Let the Government of India permit us to visit Pakistan before we meet Pant," Abdul Gani Bhat, chariman of the Hurriyat Conference, told rediff.com.
Though Congress leaders have not specified what line the party would adopt when its representatives meet Pant at his residence, sources indicated that they would support the peace initiatives of Vajpayee.
They would also emphasis that the secular character of the state not be disturbed and the framework of talks should be within the Shimla agreement.
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