PM Modi and Chinese President Xi To Meet After 5 Years As Border Crisis Sees Resolution

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that India and China have worked out an agreement ensuring that no clashes like the one that happened in Galwan in June 2020 will occur again.

File photo of PM Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Source : PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in Kazan, Russia. This will be there first bilateral meeting in five years. They last met in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu in 2019 when President Xi came to India for an informal summit.

 

"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" Foreign Secretary Misri said during a press briefing on Tuesday.

 

The foreign secretary said that India and China have worked out an agreement ensuring that no clashes like the one that happened in Galwan in June 2020 will occur again.

 

 

"In the pending areas under discussion, patrolling and grazing activities, wherever applicable, will revert to the situation as it obtained in 2020," Misri said while elaborating on the border patrolling agreement.

 

"As far as the disengagement agreements reached previously are concerned, those agreements were not reopened in these discussions. The agreement that was reached yesterday was focused on issues that had remained outstanding in the last couple of years," he added. 

 

The meeting between Modi and Xi comes as the ongoing border standoff between India and China in the Eastern Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) approaches a resolution.

  

The Indian Army has been “allowed to” patrol certain areas that it used to before the face-off began, sources said, and the government on Monday hinted at a “patrolling arrangement” between the two sides.

Both the Indian Army as well as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army are looking to disengage from the remaining points where the faceoff is currently going on, including in the Demchok area and Depsang Plains, multiple sources told ABP Live.

 

PM Narendra Modi is on a two-day visit to Kazan, about 900 km east of Moscow, to attend the 16th BRICS Summit. Earlier in the day, he held bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and also met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the margins of the summit.