5 years after their last bilateral, Modi-Xi meet in Russia today | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A day after announcing the LAC patrolling agreement with China, India confirmed that PM Modi will have a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Brics summit in Russia’s Kazan on Wednesday. This will be the first formal bilateral meeting between the two since Modi hosted Xi for a bilateral summit in Tamil Nadu in 2019. A joint statement is expected after the meeting.
The confirmation by foreign secretary Vikram Misri followed remarks by the Chinese foreign ministry that Beijing views the development positively and will work with India to implement the solution that both sides have reached.Foreign minister S Jaishankar had said on Monday that with the agreement, the two countries had returned to the situation that existed in 2020 and the disengagement process had been completed.
Misri said that the agreement entails a return in areas under discussion to the situation in 2020 as far as patrolling and grazing activities are concerned. According to the foreign secretary, it has to be implemented on the ground and India will strive for arrangements that prevent any border clash. He also said the new agreement was focused on the outstanding issues that emerged in the past few years.

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“We have to focus now on disengagement. De-escalation and de-induction of troops we will talk about at the right time,” said Misri.
India had on Monday said both sides had reached an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the LAC leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had emerged after the stand-off erupted in 2020.
In its first response, Beijing said China and India have maintained close communication on issues related to the border through diplomatic and military channels. “At present, the two sides have reached a solution to the relevant issues, which China has positively evaluated. In the next step, China will work with India to implement the above solution,” said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, according to an English translation of the remarks.