India conveyed disagreement on Miliband's views to UK: Pranab

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI) After UK Foreign Secretary David
Miliband ruffled feathers here by linking the Kashmir issue
with terrorism, India Wednesday said it conveyed its
disagreement to Britain through diplomatic channels and is
treating 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," India's
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here
on the sidelines of a function organised by FICCI.

He was asked whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had
written a letter to his British counterpart Gordon Brown over
Miliband's observations.

Reports had it that Singh had written a letter to Brown
over the British Foreign Secretary's comments linking
resolution of Kashmir issue to terrorism in the region.

Mukherjee said when the Foreign Secretary from UK visited
India he had shared his perception about the situation with
him and the Indian delegation.

"I equally told him and all the interlocutors that this
is your perception and we do not share it," he said, adding
that there was no question of giving anyone a cold shoulder.

In an article in a British newspaper 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.

Miliband had also put his faith in the Pakistani judicial
system by suggesting that Pakistanis wanted in connection with
the Mumbai attacks should be tried in that country itself to
give its judicial system a chance.