When asked about PM-Obama meeting, Menon said, “I am sure they will be meeting, but we will tell you once we have it all sorted out, (with) precise timings and places.”

On the meeting between him and the Pak Foreign secretary, he said, “It is likely to take place at Sharm-al-Sheikh (in Egypt) because I think this will be the first location where we will get a chance to meet.”

On the substance of that meeting, he said, “ We will do what we have been asked to do by our leaders. Pakistan will tell us what they have done, we will tell them our concerns and we will then report to our leaders about where we stand on the issues, which for us is bringing the perpetrators of terrorism against India to justice and dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan, which supports these activities.”

He added that Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari would discuss these issues as they had decided upon in Yekaterinburg on June 16. Menon did not specify the date of the meeting but it is likely to take place on July 13 or 14, ahead of the NAM Summit on July 15. Manmohan Singh, who will be attending the Summit, will then meet Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the multilateral event.

Making it clear that terrorism would be the only agenda of his meeting with Salman Bashir, Menon said, “It is a fact that terrorism coming out of Pakistan is really the issue. We have had assurances from Pakistan that we will be discussing so that terrorism does not affect us”.

On the issue of the Pakistani government challenging release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, prime accused in the Mumbai attacks, in the Supreme Court, he said he would comment only after there was greater clarity on the issue. “I have heard all kinds of stories — petition has been filed, petition has been rejected. I do not want to comment on something that is so unclear,” he said.