The foreign ministers' meeting will be preceded by talks between India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in New York Sep 26 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.

'The foreign secretaries meeting is being held in accordance with the decisions made during the talks between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India at Sharm-el-Sheikh in July,' Bashir said in Islamabad.

'The foreign ministers will meet to discuss the agenda prepared by the two foreign secretaries,' he added.

Bashir said, 'All the issues between the two countries, including terrorism and the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir, will be discussed in these meetings.'

India wants the talks to focus on an issue it considers central to its relations with Pakistan: an end to cross-border terrorism and justice for the 26/11 carnage.