On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have a bilateral meeting. Notably, it will be almost after a gap of four years since Galwan conflict that the two leaders will hold talks. The meeting will take place on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, “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.”
On Monday, India announced it has reached an agreement with China on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, in a major breakthrough in ending the over four-year-long military standoff that creates the way for a meeting between PM Modi and Xi Jinping in Russia on October 23.
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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, at a media briefing said the agreement was firmed up following negotiations by the two sides over the last many weeks. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Indian and Chinese soldiers will be able to resume patrolling in the way they had been doing before the border face-off started and the disengagement process with China has been completed.
On June 15, 2020, China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) troops clashed with Indian soldiers in Ladakh’s Galwan resulting in the death of 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel. While India lost its 20 brave soldiers, the casualties on the Chinese side were far more around 40.
Earlier today, prime minister Modi’s first formal engagement of the day was a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin , the host of the 16th BRICS summit. The two leaders discussed the progress made in bilateral relations since the 22nd annual summit between them, which was held in July 2024 in Moscow.
The two leaders had an agenda to go over the range of bilateral issues including trade, economy, energy, defence, connectivity, education and people-to-people ties were discussed between the two of them.
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