TASHKENT SUMMIT
Bitterness Continues (N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) TASHKENT. Jan. 5. The India • Pakistan summit conference returned to crucial private negotiations todayplagued by bitterness over the long Kashmir dispute, the Associated Press reported. President Ayub Khan of Pakistan and India's Prime Minister, Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri met in their secluded “neutral villa” provided by their Russian hosts, to continue their talks. Officials from both sides said that the next round of talks between the two leaders might determine whether the summit yielded significant ' results. In their first public statements yesterday the two leaders offered each other a no-war but each attached conditions the other found unacceptable. Both delegations described the opening speeches yesterday as constructive, but the positions of the two Governments appeared to be still as far apart as ever. The Pakistan spokesman said that the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir was the “basic problem” and was the root cause of Indo-Paki-stan troubles which must be eliminated.
The Indian spokesman rejpeated that India's sovereignty over Kashmir was not nego'tiable.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 9
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