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US And Pakistan To Resume "Full Partnership"

REUTERS

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ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry agreed with Pakistan on Thursday to re-establish a "full partnership" — a partnership hurt by U.S. drone strikes and a 2011 NATO air attack in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed.

Speaking after talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad, Kerry said the two sides were serious about overcoming past irritants. He invited Sharif to visit the United States for talks with U.S. President Barack Obama.

"What was important today was that there was a determination by the United States and by Pakistan to move this relationship to the full partnership that it ought to be, and to find the ways to deal with individual issues that have been irritants over the course of the past years," Kerry said.

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