India rejects Pakistan-China Boundary Joint Commission, calls it legally baseless

India on Wednesday rejected the so-called Pakistan-China Boundary Joint Commission, asserting that there is no recognised boundary between Pakistan and China concerning Indian territory and that any such arrangement has no legal basis.

Responding to media queries, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India's position on the issue was "clear and consistent" and reiterated that New Delhi has never recognised the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963.

Jaiswal said India rejects the so-called joint commission and maintained that the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have always been, and will remain, integral and inalienable parts of India.

He said Pakistan had no locus standi to



enter into any arrangement concerning Indian territory that is under what India describes as Pakistan's illegal and forcible occupation.

India has consistently maintained that the 1963 China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement is illegal and invalid and has never recognised it.

The MEA spokesperson said India "resolutely opposes and rejects" any attempt to alter the status of the territories under occupation or legitimise what it calls illegal occupation.

He said any purported boundary cooperation between China and Pakistan involving Indian territories would be "completely unacceptable" to New Delhi.

According to Jaiswal, such an arrangement would have no bearing whatsoever on India's sovereignty over the territories concerned.