The government today ruled out any third party role in resolving the boundary issue either with Pakistan or with China.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said that these issues are purely bilateral with no scope of any third party intervention.

He informed the House that Pakistan is in illegal and forcible occupation of about 78 thousand sq. kms. of Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir since 1948.

Indian territory under Chinese occupation in the State since 1962 is nearly 38 thousand sq. kms.

Mr. Krishna said under the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963, Pakistan illegally ceded five thousand one hundred eighty sq. kms. of Indian territory in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir to China.

Denying any Indian land under Bangladesh's illegal occupation, he said some pockets along the India-Bangladesh border have traditionally been under the possession of people of one country in the territory of another. These are known as Adverse Possessions, he said.