Japan highly commends the holding of this Summit Meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan as an expression of the high-level will of both countries to continue the path of dialogue, which has taken place in the series of meetings which were reopened in March of this year, between India and Pakistan. Japan hopes to see further progress in the dialogue between these two countries in the future. In his address to the General Assembly on 22 September, Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan proposed the opening of negotiations on a nonaggression pact with India.
Japan intends to pay close attention to future developments.