Monday, February 22, 1999
Two Premiers give friendship a chance
The most substantial gains of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Lahore seem to have been in the area of augmenting confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two countries to prevent a possible nuclear war.
No political reward for India: Talbott
US Deputy secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who has been engaged in the non-proliferation dialogue with India for the last eight months, has said that India must not be rewarded politically in any way for its open defiance last May of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968.
NATO move deferred
US and European powers gave negotiators at the Kosovo peace conference in Rambouillet on Saturday another three days to reach agreement after running up against Serb objections to a NATO peacekeeping force.
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