India, China agree to ease border tensions |
Amid the rising tension on the Line of Actual Control in India`s Ladakh region, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held direct talks in Moscow for more than two hours on the night of 10th September to try and dial down tensions. The meeting took place on the sidelines of a gathering of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Before their bilateral meeting, Jaishankar and Wang attended a 90-minute luncheon meeting hosted by Russian Foreign Minister – the three countries make the RIC grouping. A joint statement after the RIC meeting said the ministers exchanged views on further strengthening of Russia-India-China trilateral cooperation as well as “topical issues of international and regional importance, in the spirit of mutual understanding, friendship and trust, .It said the ministers noted that “common development and cooperation of the three countries is conducive to promoting global growth, peace and stability”. Recalling their June 23 video-conference on the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II and the creation of the United Nations, the ministers reiterated their “support for inclusive multilateralism” and “respect for universally recognized principles of international law”.
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