External Affairs Minister Pramod Mukherjee welcomed Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's [Images] decision to lift the emergency in that country.

"It is a welcome decision by the president (of Pakistan)", Mukherjee told reporters in Raipur.

"But this is an internal matter of Pakistan and India's stand is not to comment on others' internal matters," he said.

Replying to a question on marginalisation of ethnic Indians in Malaysia, he said the matter has been taken up with the Malysian government.

On the Left parties' threat to withdraw support on Indo-US nuclear deal issue, Mukherjee said it is a "media creation".

"I spoke to (Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary) Prakash Karat today and he denied what had been published in the newspaper," he said.

India will negotiate with International Atomic Energy Agency on India-specific safeguards agreement and that will be put before the United Progressive Alliance-Left committee on the deal, Mukherjee added.