National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. file. | Photo Credit: ANI
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has reached Beijing on Tuesday (17 December 2024) to participate in the India-China Special Representative talks to be held on Wednesday (December 18, 2024) with the aim of reviving the four-year-old bilateral relationship. Due to the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
Mr. Doval is expected to hold the 23rd round of Special Representative (SR) talks with his Chinese counterpart and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on October 21 and discuss various issues to rebuild bilateral ties after the agreement on disengagement and patrolling in the eastern region. Ladakh between two countries.
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Ahead of the crucial talks, China on Tuesday said it is ready to honor commitments based on the common understanding reached between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at their October 24 meeting in Kazan, Russia, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.
“China is ready to work with India to fulfill the important common understandings between our two leaders, enhance mutual trust and confidence through dialogue and communication, honor our commitments and return our bilateral relations to a strong and stable development,” said the Foreign Ministry spokesperson when asked about the Chinese SR talks. Lin Jian said at a press conference.
On Monday, the Foreign Ministry said, “As agreed at the meeting of the two leaders in Kazan on October 23, the two SRs will discuss the management of peace and tranquility in the border region and seek a fair, practical and mutually acceptable solution to the border question.”
The Modi-X meeting, the first in five years, was followed by a meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brazil, followed by a meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination. China-India Border Affairs (WMCC).
A military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh began in May 2020, and after a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June of that year, relations between the two neighbors became seriously strained.
Apart from trade, relations between the two countries almost came to a standstill.
According to the agreement reached on October 21, the face-off was effectively ended after the process of disengagement from the last two friction points of Demchok and Depsang was completed.
The upcoming SR meeting is considered important as it is the first structured dialogue to restore relations between the two countries.
Formed in 2003 to comprehensively address the contentious dispute over the 3,488-km India-China border, the SRs mechanism has met 22 times over the years.
Despite the successful settlement of the border dispute, officials from both sides have taken it as a very promising, useful and useful tool to address recurring tensions between the two countries.
published – December 17, 2024 at 11:22 am IST