India and Pakistan plan to hold overseas minister-level talks in Islamabad in July as part of labors to get their deserted peace talks back on track, New Delhi said on Tuesday.
"The foreign minister of Pakistan has invited me to go Islamabad on the 15th of July," India's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna told reporters after a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart, Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
"I intend to visit Islamabad and I am looking forward to these conversations," he added.
India hoped that the negotiations would be "useful in building confidence between the two countries, he added." Let us hope that these efforts will be productive. “
During deliberations in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu late last month, agreed the prime ministers of both countries that their overseas ministers will meet soon to prepare a roadmap for further negotiations.
India bankrupts a complete peace dialogue with Pakistan after the Mumbai attack in November 2008 that left 166 people deceased.
Since then, India has frequently rejected Pakistan's demand a recommencement, insists that Islamabad has not done sufficient to bring the Pakistan-based militants that India blames for the killing to fairness.
The Secretary of the meeting will mainly be "talks about talks", or deliberations about how to access stop comprehensive conversation.
Contact between the alienated neighbors has intensified in recent months, partly viewed as a result of U.S. pressure for a solution in the unstable region, and a make by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
In February, succeeded two sides, a meeting between their officials at the Foreign Ministry, which resulted in a indistinct promise to keep the doors open for conversation.
The gathering between Singh and his Pakistani complement Yousuf Raza Gilani, called "Thimphu thaw" in the Indian media was perceived as a step onward.
In July, the negotiations will be the third major get in touch with between the countries in six months.
The bitter South Asian rivals have fought three wars since the subcontinent in 1947 partition.
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