SRINAGAR (AFP) - India will deal "resolutely and firmly" with any border violations, President Pratibha Patil said on Friday as she addressed troops at a camp near the Line of Control in Occupied Kashmir. The warning by Pratibha, who is also supreme commander of India's armed forces, came after forward Indian posts came under fire from across the LoC three times this month. In one incident an Indian soldier was killed. "I am confident that any violation of our borders will be dealt with resolutely and firmly," Pratibha said in a speech to soldiers at a camp in Baramulla town, some 55km north of summer capital Srinagar. "We must guard our borders with full dedication and bravery," she said. She arrived at Srinagar's high-security army airport earlier and then flew to the LoC, where she had lunch with troops who cheered her visit. Pratibha, who was elected India's first woman president last year, was slated to stay in Kashmir for four days on her maiden official trip to the region wracked by an 18-year-old insurgency against New Delhi's rule. APP ads: Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has said Pakistan and India want to move forward in their bilateral relations. While referring to Kashmir issue, he said the Pakistan government has an open mind on the issue. Both Pakistan and India have their own position on the Kashmir dispute, he noted. "Without prejudicing their own position we are trying to find out ways to deal with the welfare of the people in mind," he said while talking to newsmen on the sidelines of a book launching ceremony here. Referring to the issue of Sarabjit Singh's death sentence in Pakistan, Shivshankar Menon said India has to deal with the issue "quietly and gently". Menon who was in Pakistan on May 20 and 21 for talks with Pakistani side suggested that more intense spotlight on the issue makes the matter more difficult to resolve. "It is hard to say. I am not sure that the public attention and singling one person out makes it easier to resolve it on humanitarian grounds," media reports quoting him said. When asked whether the government is still hopeful about the Indo-US nuke deal, he said "we keep hoping and that is why we did it (deal)."