UN chief welcomes Modi-Sharif meeting in Paris
December 01, 2015 09:44
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit.
"...obviously, if the meeting did take place, we welcome it," Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told media persons in New York on Monday when asked for the UN chief's response to the meeting between the two South Asian leaders on the margins of
climate conference.
Modi and Sharif met briefly yesterday in Paris as the climate conference began in the French capital.
The two leaders warmly held hands before sitting down for a chat amidst frosty ties between the two neighbours.
The Indian side describing the encounter as a "brief exchange of courtesies", but Pakistanis terming it as a "good" meeting.
The meeting was the first between the two leaders after July when they had met in the Russian city of Ufa and had agreed that their National Security Advisors would meet.
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