BRICS Summit LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left for home after wrapping up his two-day "impactful" visit to Russia where he attended the 16th BRICS Summit and held bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting held between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit," says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.
China's President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Kazan, Russia, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.
"We're working to rebuild trust. How will that happen? Trust will be restored when we can meet face-to-face and persuade one another. We also need to reassure each other that we're respecting the boundaries that have been established," General Dwivedi stated.
The statement from the Chinese side came after the foreign secretary Vikram Misri said the Indian and Chinese negotiators were in touch over the last few weeks to resolve the remaining issues.
Both PM Modi and Chinese President Xi are attending the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, which begins Tuesday. India has also not announced whether the two nuclear nations leaders will meet on the sidelines of the summit.
The statement from Jaishankar came after the foreign secretary said the Indian and Chinese negotiators were in touch over the last few weeks to resolve the remaining issues.
The foreign secretary stated that Indian and Chinese negotiators have been in touch in recent weeks to address the outstanding border issues. The agreement is said to involve patrolling arrangements in the Depsang and Demchok regions.
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PM Modi and Xi Jinping have not had any formal bilateral meeting ever since the aggressive moves by the Chinese PLA to unilaterally change the status quo along the LAC in eastern Ladakh and the counter-deployment by the Indian Army in April-May 2020 started the military stand-off.
Nepal PM Oli underlined the need to continue the exchange of high-level visits between the two countries to enhance government-to-government, people-to-people and historical ties, as well as to promote trade.
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will address the Army Commanders’ Conference in Gangtok today, focusing on border security and emerging national security challenges, particularly along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
Two Chinese nationals died while 10 others got injured after a massive blast in a tanker rocked Karachi Airport in Pakistan on Sunday. The explosion targeted a convoy carrying Chinese staff of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company (Private) Limited.
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Chinese envoy Xu Feihong acknowledged President Murmu's congratulatory message to Xi Jinping on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Earlier, EAM S Jaishankar said China violated border agreements and continued tensions may cast a shadow over the relationship.
Staying in power that long will depend on how they manage in an era of slower growth and intensifying competition with the United States, one that has raised the spectre of a new Cold War.
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The situation with China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is stable but sensitive and expressed hope that issues would be resolved in the near future, said the Indian Army chief Dwivedi.
A 37-year-old man surnamed Lin was taken into custody by police responding to the report of the attack Monday evening, the local Songjiang police branch said in a statement Tuesday.
The Zhou-class vessel that sank near a pier in Wuhan in May-June is the first of a new class of Chinese nuclear-powered submarines. The government had attempted to cover up the incident but satellite imagery of the site revealed the mishap.
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