Hillary Clinton who was leading a high level US delegation on Sunday evening called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Matters relating to the strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the US, bilateral relations, regional situation, fight against militancy and mutual cooperation and assistance to Pakistan were discussed during the meeting. Spokesperson to President Farhatullah Babar said that the President called for a focused and result oriented strategic dialogue adding that issues relating to Pakistans energy needs were most important and needed to be dealt with urgently. Other subjects that came under discussion during the talks included drone attacks, post-conflict rehabilitation of the affected areas, strengthening of the law enforcing agencies and the timely reimbursement of coalition support funds arrears. Earlier Hillary Clinton had a meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in which he said Pakistan had prepared a set of documents envisaging future plans for taking the relationship beyond the war on terror and Kerry Lugar assistance programme. He expressed the hope that the Fifth Round of Strategic Dialogue scheduled for Monday to be co-chaired by Foreign Minister of Pakistan and US Secretary of State will be productive and produce positive results.
Strategic Dialogue between Pakistan and US to begin today was first posted on July 19, 2010 at 8:50 am.
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