03-25-2008, 10:38 AM
<b>Pranab meets Bush, discusses N-deal, bilateral ties</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bush and Mukherjee are said to have exchanged not only pleasantries but also discussed the width and depth of the United States-India relations that included the civilian nuclear initiative.
Specific details of the meeting have not been made available to the media. Mukherjee is expected to describe them first hand at a press conference on Tuesday.
"<b>You will know tomorrow from the minister</b>" was all that a senior official would say when asked about the details of the Mukherjee-Bush meeting.
Apart from the minister, the Indian delegation at the Oval Office included Ambassador of India Ronen Sen, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, Deputy Chief of the Indian Mission Raminder Singh Jassal and the Joint Secretary (Americas) of the Ministry of External Affairs Gayatri Kumar.
Present with Bush were his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [Images] and his National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Yet another critical meeting that took place on Monday was the one-on-one dinner between Rice and Mukherjee, in which the two top functionaries are supposed to have gone much beyond their brief interaction at Foggy Bottom earlier in the morning.
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Specific details of the meeting have not been made available to the media. Mukherjee is expected to describe them first hand at a press conference on Tuesday.
"<b>You will know tomorrow from the minister</b>" was all that a senior official would say when asked about the details of the Mukherjee-Bush meeting.
Apart from the minister, the Indian delegation at the Oval Office included Ambassador of India Ronen Sen, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, Deputy Chief of the Indian Mission Raminder Singh Jassal and the Joint Secretary (Americas) of the Ministry of External Affairs Gayatri Kumar.
Present with Bush were his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [Images] and his National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Yet another critical meeting that took place on Monday was the one-on-one dinner between Rice and Mukherjee, in which the two top functionaries are supposed to have gone much beyond their brief interaction at Foggy Bottom earlier in the morning.
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