The Hindu : Brajesh Mishra begins talks in U.S.

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Brajesh Mishra begins talks in U.S.

By Sridhar Krishnaswami

WASHINGTON MAY 8. India's National Security Adviser, Brajesh Mishra, begins two days of intensive and extensive discussions with senior officials of the Bush administration on global, regional and bilateral issues.

He will have separate meetings with the Chairman of the National Economic Council, Steve Friedman, and his counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, at the White House. He will also speak at a function organised by the American Jewish Committee. Others participating in the event include the Prime Minister of Spain, the Vice-President of El Salvador and the White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card.

On Friday, Mr. Mishra is scheduled to meet the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, the Deputy Secretary of Defence, Paul Wolfowitz, and have interactions with leading figures of the think tanks. He will also meet members of the media.

Mr. Mishra could also be seeing lawmakers, the specifics of which are being worked out. Given what has taken place in the last few days in the subcontinent, a key aspect of Mr. Mishra's discussions here, at least at the political level, will have to do with Indo-Pak. relations, the steps towards rapprochement and reduction of tensions. He has already had discussions on the issue with the Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, in London.

But both the State Department and the White House would want to hear first hand on the broader framework that India and Pakistan may be having in mind.

Bilaterally, the focus will be on a number of areas, especially enhanced cooperation in high technology. Mr. Mishra is expected to address three areas: nuclear energy cooperation, civilian space cooperation and high technology exports.

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