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New Delhi May 31. India today ruled out any meeting between the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, on the sidelines of a security conference in Kazakhstan next week but said Mr. Vajpayee was expected to hold bilateral talks with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, and the Chinese President, Jiang Zemin.

"There is no question of Mr. Vajpayee meeting Gen. Musharraf. There is no possibility of a Tashkent II," the Special Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry, R.M. Abhyankar, said while briefing presspersons here on the Prime Minister's four-day visit to Almaty from June 2. — PTI

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