Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar engaged in bilateral discussions along with his Chinese language counterpart, Wang Yi, throughout the latter’s two-day official go to to India that concluded on Tuesday. Nationwide Safety Adviser Ajit Doval, who had invited the Chinese language overseas minister for the go to, co-chaired the twenty fourth spherical of the Particular Representatives’ Dialogue on the Boundary Query between India and China with Yi.
Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Get together of China Central Committee and Minister of Overseas Affairs of the Folks’s Republic of China, additionally known as on Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his go to.
On the Particular Representatives’ Dialogue, held within the nationwide capital, discussions lined a variety of points, together with de-escalation, delimitation and boundary affairs.
Each overseas ministers additionally mentioned bilateral, regional, and worldwide problems with frequent curiosity.
India strongly raised the problem of terrorism in all its varieties and manifestations, together with cross-border terrorism, recalling that one of many authentic goals of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was to counter terrorism.
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Yi concurred that countering terrorism ought to be given the very best precedence.
The SCO summit is scheduled to be held in China later this month.
Throughout the discussions, Jaishankar additionally underlined India’s issues concerning the mega dam development being undertaken by China within the decrease reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra river), which could have implications for decrease riparian states.
He strongly pressured the necessity for utmost transparency on this regard.
The Chinese language aspect raised the problem of Taiwan, to which the Indian aspect reiterated that there was no change in its place.
It identified that, like the remainder of the world, India maintains relations with Taiwan centered on financial, technological, and cultural ties.
The Indian aspect additionally famous that China itself cooperates with Taiwan in these very domains.
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