India has expressed the hope that China realises the need to show more sensitivity on core issues that impinge on the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said this at a seminar in New Delhi today. She said the two countries were also putting in place more confidence building measures to tackle the vexed boundary issue, for which India is making a serious attempt to try to arrive at a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution. Ms. Rao talked about a host of issues which are a matter of concern to New Delhi .These included Chinese presence in Pak-occupied Kashmir, issuance of stapled visas to residents of Jammu and Kashmir and construction of dams on cross-border rivers. She said that Indian leadership had quite frank and candid discussions while raising these issues of concern in intense discussions with their Chinese counterparts.Citing the recently concluded 14th round of talks between the Special Representatives on the boundary issue, Ms. Rao said, the absence of the solution to the question is not due to the lack of effort but arises from the difficulty of the question. She maintained that the India-China boundary was the most peaceful of all boundaries and both the countries have a well organised set of measures to ensure peace and tranquility on the boundary. She asserted that the need for mutual sensitivity to each others concerns cannot be denied. Ms Rao she said the issue of giving stapled visas for Indian nationals from the state of Jammu and Kashmir arises in a similar context.The foreign secretary said India is alert to reports of China damming cross-border rivers and has sought assurances from Beijing that it will take no action to negatively affect the flow of the rivers into India.Reffering to Sino-India cooperation on various fora including climate change and the trilateral with Russia, Ms.Rao hoped that such cooperation can also be strengthened on the important issue of UN reforms including on India's quest for a permanent membership of the UN Security Council.