New Delhi
February 11, 1999

Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be visiting Lahore on the inaugural run of the Delhi-Lahore bus service on February 20, 1999. The Pakistan Foreign Secretary informed our High Commissioner in Islamabad that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would welcome our Prime Minister at the border. The full program of the Prime Minister’s visit is being finalized.

We have agreed to the Pakistan Foreign Ministry’s suggestion that in view of the Prime Minister’s visit the meetings of the foreign Secretaries proposed to be held in New Delhi from 17th to 20th February, 1999 on the subjects assigned to them in the composite dialogue process be rescheduled.