India wants peace, prosperity and stability Pak: Pranab
New Delhi, Nov 6: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said New Delhi wished to see the beginning of democratisation in Pakistan, adding that the people of that country would then be able to elect their government.
"We do hope the process of democratisation in Pakistan to begin and people of Pakistan will get an opportunity to have their government as per their Constitution," Mukherjee told reporters on the sidelines of the first India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference here.
Mukherjee said that New Delhi wants "peace, prosperity and stability" in Pakistan.
On Saturday, the day on which the emergency was proclaimed in Pakistan by President General Pervez Musharraf, New Delhi hoped that normalcy would soon return to democracy.
Mukherjee
inaugurated
the
first
India-Africa
Hydrocarbon
Conference.
Petroleum
and
Natural
Gas
Minister
Murli
Deora
also
attended
the
conference.
The
Ministry
of
Petroleum
and
Natural
Gas,
FICCI
and
UNCTAD
are
jointly
organising
a
two-day
conference.
The primary objective of the conference is to provide a platform for exploring mutually beneficial partnership opportunities between Africa and India in the hydrocarbon sector.
Twelve Ministers of Energy from Africa will be leading delegations to this conference.
All the leading public and private sector players from India like, ONGC, IOC, GAIL, HPCL, BPCL, EIL, OIL, OVL and Reliance will showcase the Indian hydrocarbon sector.
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