INDIA-CHINA

Betwa Sharma
New York, Oct 22 (PTI) India is not intimidated by China
and the border dispute between the two countries could be
settled by talks, Minister of State for External Affairs
Preneet Kaur has said, noting that the media was over-playing
the recent tensions between the neighbours.
"We are not intimidated by China. I think we are very
confident of our own strength but certainly we are very
confident that this issue can be settled by talks," Kaur, who
is on an official visit to New York, told PTI.
"There has been a lot of media hype created over what the
Chinese are doing," she added.
Kaur vehemently denied, recent allegations, that India's
leaders were appeasing China by insisting not reacting more
strongly to escalation in tensions. "We have a good enough
relationship to be able to sort all this out across the table,
which is carrying on," she told journalists.
Responding to reports that Beijing is projecting Jammu
and Kashmir as a separate country in maps and media kits, the
senior politician from Patiala, declared, "There never has
been any question of our giving up our sovereign right on
Kashmir, there is no question of our giving up our sovereign
right on Arunachal Pradesh."
"The prime minsters have reiterated, the foreign minister
has reiterated that these our integral parts of India and will
remain so," she added. (MORE) PTI