Ahead of the meeting, Khurshid had said there have been events in the recent times that are not seen by the government or by anybody in India as encouraging, an apparent reference to ceasefire violations along the LoC in which many Indian soldiers have been killed.
Asked about Aziz's meeting with Hurriyat and other separatist leaders immediately after arriving for ASEM meet, Khurshid had said, "I must say it is important that what we say and what we do, we have to carefully watch.
Sparking off a controversy, Aziz had met leaders of various Kashmiri separatist groups of Hurriyat Conference immediately after his arrival for ASEM ministerial meeting. It was seen by the Government as "extremely unfortunate" misuse of a multilateral forum for partisan ends.
