India on Wednesday said it had made it clear to Britain through diplomatic channels that it did not share its Foreign Secretary David Miliband's views linking resolution of the Kashmir issue with terrorism. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that India treated the matter as a closed chapter.
"In our normal diplomatic channel, what is proper and just we have done it and now it is a closed chapter," he told reporters when asked whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had written to his British counterpart Gordon Brown over Mr. Miliband's observations.
However, sources in the Prime Minister's Office said "no letter has been written." Mr. Mukherjee said Mr. Miliband, during his visit to India, had shared his perception about the situation with Mr. Mukherjee and the Indian delegation.
"I told him and all the interlocutors that this is your perception and we do not share it," Mr. Mukherjee said, adding that there was no question of giving anyone a cold shoulder.
In an article in a British newspaper, Mr. Miliband had written that resolution of the Kashmir issue would deny extremists in the region one of the main reasons for taking up arms, prompting the External Affairs Ministry to point out that it did not need any "unsolicited advice" on Kashmir.