Brussels, 15/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - From Madrid, where on Thursday the ministerial meeting with India was held, the Union proposed its good offices in the conflict between that country and Pakistan over Kashmir. Far from mediation, that India does not want to hear about in an affair it regards as purely bilateral, the Troika made up of Commissioner Chris Patten, the High Representative for Cfsp, Javier Solana and the President of the EU Council, Josep Piqué, offered to play a role as "facilitator" to try to defuse the worrying escalation in tensions between these two nuclear powers of the region. The Europeans pointed out that, even if India continues to demands acts of good will from its neighbour, that has not to reduce to nought all possibility of dialogue, of de-escalation and withdrawal of military forces from the disputed area. The meeting with Foreign minister Jaswant Singh also focused on the situation in Afghanistan, where India's commitment, which seemed closely concerned, were "perceptible"", a diplomatic source said. It was also marked by the opening of full discussions on human rights, a concession that was hard to pull out of New Delhi at the bilateral Summit last November. For this first, the Europeans placed emphasis on less sensitive issues, before delivering their message against the death penalty and enquire about the situation in Jama and Kshmir following implementation of security measures. They also insisted on the need to take visible actions before the bilateral summit of Copenhagen, to be held in the second half of the year under the Danish Presidency, to provide a tangible follow-up to the agenda the Union and India provided themselves with last November.