India on Thursday rejected references to Jammu and Kashmir within the Sino-Pakistan joint assertion in the course of the go to of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Beijing.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi mentioned the references have been “inappropriate” and India constantly rejected such statements.
He mentioned that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have at all times been and can be an integral and inseparable a part of India.
On the China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor (CPEC), Bagchi mentioned India constantly conveyed “protests and concerns” to China and Pakistan because it entails initiatives in India’s “sovereign territory”.
We utterly reject any try to make use of such initiatives to vary the established order in that area, Bagchi mentioned.
The joint assertion was issued after talks between Sharif and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
