India, Pakistan reach understanding on 'flight testing of ballistic missiles'
Dated 6/8/2005
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New Delhi, Aug. 6 (PTI): India and Pakistan tonight reached an understanding on the proposed agreement on pre-notification of flight testing of ballistic missiles. After two days of intensive discussions on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs), the two countries also decided to establish by next month the hotline between their Foreign Secretaries, Additional Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry Meera Shankar, told reporters here.
The two sides also decided to upgrade by next month the existing hotline between their Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs).
The agreed text of the proposed agreement on pre-notification of the tests will be referred to the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries for formalisation, Shankar said after the talks with Pakistan's Additional Secretary in the Foreign Office Tariq Osman Hyder, here.
"The proposed agreement commits both sides to pre-notify in a structured format flight testing of ballistic missiles with the objective of enhancing mutual confidence and engendering predictability and transparency of intent," a joint statement said.