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China has asserted that there is no question of reopening the 1963 Sino-Pak boundary agreement, as reportedly offered by Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during the Agra Summit.
"As is known to all, the China-Pakistan border issue has been settled long ago," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said.
Vajpayee told Lok Sabha this week that Musharraf had offered to take back from China part of Kashmir ceded to it, if India and Pakistan reached an agreement on the Kashmir issue. He said that during talks with Musharraf, he had raised the issue of one-third of Kashmir, which was under illegal occupation of Pakistan, as also the portion, which Islamabad had gifted to China.
However, Pakistan reacted sharply to Vajpayee's statement terming it 'outrageous'.
"No such discussion took place at any stage," Pakistani foreign office had said in a statement.
India maintains Pakistan had ceded 5,180 sq km to China under the Sino-Pakistan boundary agreement.
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