The governments of India and Pakistan agreed Saturday to restart peace negotiations, according to a joint statement issued in Havana . "We have ordered our foreign secretaries to restart the dialogue," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who read the text alongside Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, DPA reported. Both leaders are in Havana attending the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, which ends later Saturday. "It was agreed that the peace process must be maintained and respected, and that its success is important to both countries and to the region," the statement says. Further, the text contains a "energetic" condemnation of all acts of terrorism. "We agree that terrorism is an evil we have to fight," the statement says. Musharraf invited Singh for an official visit to Pakistan. Both leaders described their meeting as "useful," including talks about Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan territory that has been the major flashpoint of frequent disputes between the two nuclear-armed countries.
