Usaha memecahkan pertikaian antara India dan Pakistan secara
damai ini amat menarik: sebuah masaalah pelik ini besar
kemungkinan akan terpecahkan.
Disaat yang bersamaan usaha mencari pemecahan masaalah
Palestina
secara damai kelihatan, walaupun tersendat-sendat, juga
mengalami
kemajuan...
Di Sudan Selatan perdamaian - walaupun masih rapuh - juga telah
tercapai..
Dan masalah Aceh juga kayaknya sedang diselesaikan melalui
jalan
damai..
Dan India dengan Tiongkok juga kelihatan mau bersahabat dan
bekerja sama untukkemajuan ekonomi..
Akankah impian Emmanuel Kant akhirnya akan terlaksana ?
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On 18 Apr 05, at 11:25, hadjar_wish wrote:
Rivals say peace 'irreversible'
The leaders of India and Pakistan have said that peace between the
two nuclear rivals is "irreversible".
Manmohan Singh and Pervez Musharraf were speaking after signing
a
joint statement that followed peace talks in the Indian capital,
Delhi.
They have also agreed to increase trade and transport links
between
Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir aimed at solving the
long-
running dispute.
The two sides embarked on a peace process in January last year.
President Musharraf left India for the Philippines after calling on
former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Indian and Pakistani officials worked late into the night to finalise
the text of the statement that was released by the leaders on
Monday.
In the joint statement the two sides agreed to:
set up a joint business council to improve trade
launch a rail link between the Indian state of Rajasthan and the
Pakistani province of Sindh by 1 January 2006
increase the frequency of the bus service across divided Kashmir
launched on 7 April
allow trucks to use this route to promote trade
open a new bus link between Poonch in Indian Kashmir and
Rawalakot in
Pakistani Kashmir
reopen consulates in Mumbai (Bombay) and Karachi by the end of
the
year
begin a bus service between Amritsar and Lahore
Both sides also pledged not to let militant attacks impede the peace
process.
"[We are] conscious of the historic opportunity created by the
improved environment in relations and the overwhelming desire of
the
peoples of the two countries for durable peace," Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh said.
Earlier, President Musharraf said the talks had been more
successful
than he had expected. He said the Kashmir dispute would have to
be
solved amicably.
The world has changed, especially after 9/11
President Musharraf
But he added that the Line of Control dividing Kashmir could not be
accepted as a final solution to the dispute over the region.
India and Pakistan have gone to war twice over Kashmir, a territory
which both sides claim.
Speaking to Indian editors over breakfast on Monday, President
Musharraf said military solutions were "not the option anymore".
"The world has changed, especially after 9/11," he said.
He also said only the leaders of the two countries, rather than
diplomats and officials, could find a solution to Kashmir.
On Sunday, President Musharraf met separatist leaders from Indian-
administered Kashmir.
"We support the measures, but we believe this is an incomplete
process," separatist leader Mirwaiz Omar Farooq told journalists
after the meeting.
The separatists have said they want to be included in the peace
process.
Cricket diplomacy
Also on Sunday, the two leaders watched the start of the final one-
day international cricket match between India and Pakistan.
I hope General Musharraf will carry a message of love and peace
from
here. The bitterness should end
Israr Mohammad,
Ajmer resident
The match was eventually won by Pakistan.
Mr Singh presented the president with a painting of his childhood
home in Delhi.
In turn, President Musharraf gave the Indian prime minister a copy
of
his birth certificate and photographs from the village in Pakistan
where he was born.
It was President Musharraf's first visit to India since a failed
summit in 2001.
The trip followed a year of peace talks, which the week before last
saw the first buses in nearly 60 years cross divided Kashmir.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4455351.stm
Published: 2005/04/18 08:04:35 GMT
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