Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Talks between foreign ministers of India and Pakistan were held in New Delhi at the end of July.

Their meeting, the first of its kind in a year, yielded some results.

The joint statement, released after the talks, unveiled Kashmir-related confidence building measures.

Travels across the divided Kashmir will now include visits for tourism and religious pilgrimage, while earlier the bus service was only for families that separated after the 1947 war on Kashmir.

The two sides also decided to relax travel permit conditions by having a six-month multiple entry, extended from four weeks. The number of trading days will extend from two to four days per week.

They also agreed to continue the talks over the issues of expanding export items and establishing a system of confidence building over the nuclear issue.

As regards the agreement, news media are of the view that the two countries have entered a new stage of peace talks.

The bilateral relations are historically complicated.

When the two countries won independence separately in 1947, they failed to reach an agreement on the Kashmir issue. Two of the three wars fought by the two countries were entirely related to Kashmir. In the hope of settling the Kashmir issue the two sides started all-round peace talks in 2004. But, in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the peace talks had been suspended.

At the latest talks, the Pakistani foreign minister said the bilateral relations have come into a new era.

After the meeting, the Indian foreign minister said he was satisfied with the progress achieved in the round of the resumed dialogue and the outcomes have been with their expectations.

In a joint statement, both sides did not touch on the Mumbai terrorist incident, but underscored the need to seek a peaceful settlement by narrowing difference in opinion and establishing a common view.

This is an expression of the willingness common to both countries to make a bigger stride in peace talks.