I don't think we are soft- pedaling this issue or that.

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

India is a partner in global non-proliferation efforts rather than a target of these efforts,

a very useful instrument in bridging differences between the two countries.

India has political limitations. We are not in a position to redraw boundaries. Short of that what is required to give comfort to people of Jammu and Kashmir in terms of free flow of people, goods and ideas we are ready to consider.

In seeking clarity on such clandestine activities, the international community must focus not merely on recipient states but on supplier states as well; otherwise our global non-proliferation effort would be undermined by charges of motivated selectivity and discrimination,