Pakistan and India will resume their peace talks next week, said Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Muhammad Sadiq on Thursday.
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will travel to Islamabad and hold "ministerial-level review of the fourth round of Pakistan-India composite dialogue on May 21" with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said Sadiq.
The ministerial meeting will be preceded by the foreign secretary-level review meeting on May 20, Sadiq told a weekly news conference.
The two sides will review the progress made on all the eight issues under the fourth round of composite dialogue and set the timetable for the fifth round.
The two countries concluded the fourth round of composite dialogue in October 2007, but failed to review the dialogue and to launch the fifth round due to political turmoil in Pakistan.
The composite dialogue was launched in 2004 and had made significant progress. There are eight items involved in the composite dialogue, including the disputed Kashmir issue.
"The review meeting will help the two sides to assess the progress made in the fourth round of the eight segments of composite dialogue process and deliberate on how to address the outstanding issues in a more meaningful way," Sadiq said.
"We are committed to the peace process and seek peaceful resolution of all issues including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute," he added.
Source: Xinhua
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