Summary Ban Ki-moon welcomed meeting between PM Nawaz and Modi in Paris.
NEW YORK (Web Desk) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed the meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit.
"...obviously, if the meeting did take place, we welcome it," Ban‘s spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters when asked for the UN chief‘s response to the meeting between the two South Asian leaders on the margins of climate conference.
Modi and Sharif met briefly yesterday in Paris as the climate conference began in the French capital. The two leaders warmly held hands before sitting down for a chat amidst frosty ties between the two neighbours.
PM Nawaz Sharif met Narendra Modi at COP 21 in Paris on Monday.
The Indian side describing the encounter as a "brief exchange of courtesies", but Pakistanis terming it as a "good" meeting.
The meeting was the first between the two leaders after July when they had met in the Russian city of Ufa and had agreed that their National Security Advisors would meet.
The two leaders had attended the UN General Assembly session in September but did not meet even though they had stayed in the same hotel.
Modi and Sharif came under one roof during a peacekeeping summit held on the sidelines of the General Assembly, but only waved at each other and did not speak or shake hands.
The UN Chief stressed that dialogue is the only way for resolving differences between the two countries.
