n prime minister advises Iran to be flexible New Delhi, Sept 24, SPA -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a telephone call

kilometer (1,750-mile) gas pipeline from
Iran via Pakistan to feed the growing needs of its booming
economy, The Associated Press reported.
In a statement late Friday, the Indian foreign ministry
said Ahmadinejad called Singh and raised the issue of
Iran's standoff over its nuclear program at the
International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA, the United
Nation's nuclear watchdog agency, was to reconvene
Saturday.
Singh "advised him that Iran should consider taking a
flexible position so as to avoid a confrontation ... (and)
repeated the necessity for Iran to make concessions to this
end," the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement.
"India supports the resolution of all issues through
discussion and consensus in the IAEA."
On the sidelines of the United Nations summit this month,
Singh said he assured U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that India wants Iran to follow its international
treaty obligation not to pursue nuclear weapons.