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Informist, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – Two days after India arrived at an agreement with China on border patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit at Kazan in Russia, the Ministry of External Affairs said Tuesday. 

 

"I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting held between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow (Wednesday) on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit," Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said in a briefing. 

 

Prime Minister Modi is on a two-day visit to Russia to take part in the BRICS Summit. He also held bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier in the day. 

 

On Monday, Misri had informed the media about the border agreement. Later in the day, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar called it a "positive and good" development. "I think it creates a basis… peace and tranquillity, which should be there in the border areas, which was there before 2020, we will be able to come back to that," Jaishankar had said.

 

Referring to Misri's statement, Jaishankar had said, "…we have reached an agreement on patrolling, and with that, we have gone back to where the situation was in 2020. We can say that the disengagement process with China has been completed… There are areas where, for various reasons after 2020, because they had blocked us, so we had blocked them. So what has happened is we have reached an understanding which will allow the patrolling."

 

China on Tuesday confirmed that it has arrived at an agreement with India to end the standoff in eastern Ladakh. 

Ties between the two neighbouring countries had deteriorated in 2020 due to fierce clashes between the armies along the eastern Ladakh border, which led to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and several Chinese soldiers.  End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

 

 

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