With the election of India, China and Iran to the IPU Human Rights Committee, the issue simlply ``fizzled out'', Member of Parliament Dr Subramaniam Swamy said.

Dr Swamy was elected a member of the executive of the IPU Human Rights Committee with an overwhelming vote yesterday.

Earlier, on Monday, the IPU Centenary Conference refused to debate on the South Asian nuclear stand-off proposed by Britain, Japan and Iran, who in their separate initiatives, urged India to unconditionally sign the CTBT and NPT and resolve the Kashmir issue with Pakistan.

The conference has asked Iran to work out, together with Britain, Japan and Denmark, a joint proposal addressing the problem of nuclear non-proliferation and global disarmament for the next conference.

Responding to a Pakistani representative's reference to Kashmir during the general debate yesterday, Jagmohan, MP and a member of the Indian delegation, said the problem has been the result of terrorism ``generated, funded, equipped and trained across the borders''.

Welcoming the willingness for ``substantial and pragmatic'' dialogue with India voiced by the Pakistani representative, Jagmohan stressed that the Shimla agreement of 1972 provides the framework for developing the Indo-Pak relationship and resolving any differences on a bilateral basis.

``India's security concerns are not limited to one country,'' he said, in reply to the Pakistani delegate and stressed that India's nuclear tests were occasioned by its perception of security intersts and commitment to universal and non-discriminatory nuclear disarmament.

He said that New Delhi had also taken unilateral steps in terms of declaring a no-first-use and voluntary moratorium on further tests and invited Islamabad to respnd positively to all these steps.