WASHINGTON: US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and COAS General Ashfaq Kayani met in Spain to discuss ways to shore up strained ties after a US raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.
The pair sat down for more than two hours of talks late Friday on the sidelines of a NATO conference in Seville, Mullen's spokesman Captain John Kirby told this news agency.
"They agreed that the relationship between our two countries remained vital to the region and that both sides had taken positive steps to improve that relationship over the past few months," Kirby said. "They also discussed the state of military-to-military cooperation and pledged to continue to find ways to make it better."
It was the first meeting between the pair since the May 2 nighttime military raid in which US Navy Seals, without first notifying Islamabad, killed the Al-Qaeda leader in the compound in Abbottabad where he had been hiding. (AFP)
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