New Delhi, January 13: India today described as “unacceptable” the issuing of stapled visas to residents of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh by China.
“Issuing of stapled visas is unacceptable to India,” Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters here.
He was responding to queries about the recent incident involving two sportspersons from Arunachal Pradesh.
The two athletes were prevented by immigration officials from boarding a flight yesterday from New Delhi to Beijing since they had stapled visas given by Chinese Embassy on their passports.
The Ministry of External Affairs has made it clear that India considers Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India and has conveyed to the Chinese side that a uniform process of issue of visas to Indian citizens be followed regardless of applicant’s ethnicity or place of domicile.
–Agencies