National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held an important meeting in Beijing on Wednesday, in which several issues including maintaining peace and stability along the LAC and restoring bilateral relations, which were frozen for four years, were discussed. Doval and Yi – Special Representatives of India and China for the border mechanism – discussed a roadmap to take forward talks on border issues, which had been stalled due to the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
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23rd round of special representatives talks
Earlier, Doval, who was leading the Indian delegation, reached Beijing on Tuesday to participate in the 23rd round of Special Representatives talks being held after a gap of five years. The last meeting of the Special Representatives talks was held in Delhi in 2019. The talks started at 10 am China time.
The two officials were expected to discuss a range of issues to reinvigorate bilateral ties following the agreement on disengagement of troops and patrolling between the two countries on October 21 in eastern Ladakh. China on Tuesday expressed optimism about the talks, saying they would implement the commitments based on the consensus reached between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Kazan, Russia on the sidelines of the BRICS summit on October 24. Ready to work with India.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jiani said during a press conference that the leaders of China and India are committed to implementing important common understanding, respecting each other’s core interests and major concerns, and building mutual trust through dialogue and communication. Ready to work with India to strengthen bilateral relations, properly settle differences with honesty and goodwill, and put bilateral relations back on the track of stable and healthy development as soon as possible.
both specialRepresentatives will discuss important issues related to border dispute: Ministry of External Affairs
India’s External Affairs Ministry on Monday said the two special representatives will discuss the management of peace and stability in the border areas and find a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the border issue, as agreed during the meeting of the two leaders in Kazan.
After the Modi-Xi meeting, which was their first in five years, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brazil, following which they worked for consultation and coordination on China-India border matters. Mechanism (WMCC) meeting was held.
The military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh began in May 2020 and was followed by a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June the same year, resulting in severe tensions in relations between the two neighbours. Relations between the two countries almost came to a standstill, except for trade.