New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- India on Friday opposed China's infrastructure development projects in the Shaksgam valley and said it has the right to take measures to safeguard its interests as the region is Indian territory. "Shaksgam valley is Indian territory. We have never recognised the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement signed in 1963," external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a weekly media briefing. Jaiswal was responding to a question about infrastructure development by the Chinese in the Shaksgam Tract, which includes the Shaksgam Valley, and is an area of 5,200 sq km north of the Karakoram watershed that has been illegally occupied by China since 1963. The region was earlier occupied by Pakistan since 1947 before Islamabad illegally ceded it to Beijing. Shaksgam valley is claimed by India as part of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir. A few years ago, satellite images suggested that the Chinese side had built a road that entered the lower part of the Shaksgam valley, and reached a location less than 50 km from the Siachen glacier, which is held by India. Jaiswal said the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an "integral and inalienable" part of India. "This has been clearly conveyed to Pakistani and Chinese authorities several times," he said. Jaiswal responded to another question on massive Chinese military exercises near Taiwan by saying that India wants all concerned parties to exercise restraint. "We urge all concerned parties to exercise restraint, eschew unilateral action and resolve all issues through peaceful means without threat or use of force," he said....