J. N. Dixit, 68; Served as India's Negotiator in Pakistan and China Disputes -- Rest in Peace

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Subject: J. N. Dixit, 68; Served as India's Negotiator in Pakistan and China Disputes

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Date Posted: January 11, 2005 11:09:03 EDT

J. N. Dixit, India's national security adviser, who led peace initiatives with Pakistan, died here on Monday. He was 68.

The cause was a heart attack, a government spokesman said.

Mr. Dixit negotiated with Pakistan, India's major rival, on settling the decades-old dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, and with China over a border dispute that led to war in 1962.

In addition, he communicated regularly with Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's national security adviser and nominee to replace Colin L. Powell as secretary of state, said G. Parthasarthy, India's former envoy to Pakistan.

Mr. Dixit, a career diplomat and defense specialist, joined the Congress Party after he retired a little more than a decade ago as India's foreign secretary, the top bureaucratic job in the External Affairs Ministry.

He helped set the Congress agenda on defense, security and foreign policy before the national elections for the lower house of Parliament that put Congress, Sonia Gandhi's party, back in power last May.

He also was India's ambassador to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Mr. Dixit joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1958. He was India's first ambassador to Bangladesh after the war in 1971 that established its independence from Pakistan. He was also ambassador to Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and held diplomatic posts in Mexico, Chile, Japan and Austria.

In 1991, he was appointed foreign secretary under the Congress government. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1994.

He is survived by his wife and several children.

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