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FO clarifies

PM's remarks on

nuclear issue

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office spokesman characterized as inaccurate the reporting on the Prime Minister's remarks regarding US-Pakistan exchanges on the nuclear question. He was commenting on a report in an English daily about the remarks the Prime Minister made during an informal briefing in Lahore on Sunday.

The Spokesman said the Prime Minister had explained that the United States accepted the premise that the non-proliferation issue had to be addressed on a regional basis. Pakistan and the US had also reached an understanding that the steps to achieve this objective could be pursued either on regional basis or through a non-discriminatory global agreement. Pakistan, the US understood, will take no unilateral measures.-APP