SEOUL  - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed their desire to intensify the bilateral dialogue process for further engagements as they had an informal chat here, their second in two days at the Nuclear Security Summit.
Gilani and Singh had an ‘informal meeting’ in Seoul, a brief statement issued by the prime minister’s media office in Islamabad said.
“Both the leaders expressed their desire to intensify the dialogue process for further engagements,” it said.
Gilani and Singh shook hands as they greeted each other during the photo-op for the top world leaders attending the summit in the South Korean capital.
Last night, the prime minister and his Indian counterpart Singh had a ‘meet-and-greet’ encounter prior to a dinner hosted for dignitaries attending the summit here. “Prime Minister said hello to Mr Gilani,” Indian sources had said.  This was the first meeting between the two leaders since they met in the idyllic Addu resort in the Maldives where they had vowed to script ‘a new chapter’ in their bilateral ties.
On Gilani-Singh meeting, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the two leaders discussed bilateral issues. “The two leaders met and chatted,” Khar said. “Political leadership in both the countries is willing to resolve the (bilateral) issues,” she said. “We have been talking of removal of trust deficit... We have to follow a result-oriented process,” Khar said.
Later talking to reporters onboard his plane, Singh, while  welcoming Pakistan’s move to liberalise trade with India, said he could visit that country if there would be ‘something solid’ to celebrate. “He (Gilani) said when are you coming there (Pakistan). So, I said let us do something solid so that we can celebrate,” Singh said.