Malik not to attend Srinagar round-table

Monday, May 22, 2006, 14:25 [IST]

Srinagar, May 22: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik today said he had already decided not to participate in the round-table conference.

Talking to UNI here, Malik said he had rejected the invitation to attend the first round-table in New Delhi on February 25.

''There is no change in my stand,'' he added.

However, the JKLF Chief declined to comment on receiving the fresh invitation to attend the second round-table conference to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on May 24-25.

Malik had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh separately in New Delhi on February 17.

UNI

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