Following the meeting between External Affairs Minister Shri K. Natwar Singh and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Khurshid M. Kasuri, on sept.8, 2004, both sides announced their agreement to conduct a joint survey of the boundary pillars in the horizontal segment (blue dotted line) of the International Boundary in the Sir Creek Area.
The Minister of State for External Affairs, Shri E. Ahamed informed that Lok Sabha that during the technical meeting to discuss the modalities for carrying out the Joint Survey, held in Islamabad on December 14-15, 2004, the two sides agreed that the Joint survey would commence from January 3, 2005.
The Joint Survey took note of position of the existing pillars. This was followed by a meeting of the two sides at Wagah from 8-12 Feb., 2005 where the processing of the field data collected during the joint survey to determine the coordinates of the existing pillars was completed.
This information was given to Lok Sabha in reply to a question by S/Shri Y.G. Mahajan, Adhalrao Patil Shivajirao, Braja Kishore Tripathy, Sugrib Singh and Anandrao V. Adsul.
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(Release ID :7488)