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Tripartite talks

2025-02-07
CAPETOWN: The tripartite talks between South Africa, Pakistan and India on the treatment of the Pakistani and Indian nationals in the Union were opened in camera this morning [Feb 6] by the South African Minister of Interior, Dr I.E. Donges. `Procedural arrangements for the talks were considered and agreed upon,` it was announced in an official communique. The leader of the Pakistan delegation, Dr Mahmud Hussain ... expressed the hope that the lifting of the trade ban would mean a return to the volume of trade with the Union existing before 1948. Pakistan, he said, was eager to import South African coal while South Africa would benefit from jute imported from Pakistan. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by a staff correspondent in Karachi,] Argentina is ... interested in Pakistan`s raw jute and the country would ... like to establish jute mills in case they were given a sufficient quota of jute on a long-term agreement, [said] Dr Molinari, Argentine Senator, to Dawn on Sunday [Feb 6] ... . In case the setting up of jute mills in Argentina was not possible, Mr Molinari added he would advise his Government to install jute mills in Pakistan.