The Defence Minister has said that stapled visas being given by China to the residents of Arunachal Pradesh, is unacceptable.Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Thursday evening, Mr.A.K.Antony said that it has also been conveyed to the other side. The incident came to light when two sportsmen from that state 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.Reacting to the Chinese action, the Ministry of External Affairs said, 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.China also started issuing stapled visas to people from Jammu and Kashmir from later part of 2008 in an attempt to project it as a disputed area.In the case of residents of Arunachal Pradesh, visas were never issued till now as China claims the whole of the north-eastern state as its own.Meanwhile a PTI report says, an official in Chinese embassy in New Delhi has said that it will not issue visas to any official from Arunachal Pradesh, and will continue to issue stapled visas to non-officials from that state.