23 October 2024 04:50 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi And the Chinese president Xi Jinping See you on the edge. The BRICS Summit In Russia on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Masri said on Tuesday that the two sides had reached an agreement to patrol their disputed border.
The agreement on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), announced by India on Monday, followed a brief spat between Modi and Xi on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. The possibility of a first formal conversation has increased. November 2022.
“I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping tomorrow. [Wednesday] on the eve of the BRICS summit,” the Egyptian told a media briefing in the Russian city of Kazan. He declined to divulge details or review the outcome of the meeting.
The two leaders last held a structured meeting during their second informal summit in Mamallapuram in October 2019, a few months before the border standoff began.
Modi and Xi, who arrived in Kazan on Tuesday, are scheduled to meet between two plenary sessions. Brix Summit on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.
The LAC patrol agreement was the result of several rounds of diplomatic and military negotiations between India and China. This followed a series of meetings between senior leaders of the two sides in recent months – External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on July 4 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan. . ASEAN-related meetings in Laos on July 25, while National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met Wang during the BRICS meeting in St. Petersburg on September 12.
Wednesday’s meeting is expected to focus on ways for both sides to ease tensions and integrate troops into peacetime positions, the people said. India and China have deployed around 60,000 troops along the LAC since the standoff began.
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