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India, China to discuss ‘friction points’ such as Nuclear Suppliers Group bid, Jaish chief Masood Azhar’s UN ban

New Delhi | ByPTI
Feb 16, 2017 08:27 PM IST

Foreign secretary S Jaishankar and executive vice chairman of China hang Yesui will co-chair the meet to discuss “all issues of mutual interest in bilateral, regional and international domain”, external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Thursday.

India and China will hold their first Strategic Dialogue on February 22 in Beijing during which the two sides will discuss key issues of mutual “concern and interest” including “friction points” such as Masood Azhar and NSG.

File photo of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar(Reuters File Photo)
File photo of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar(Reuters File Photo)

Foreign secretary S Jaishankar and executive vice chairman of China hang Yesui will co-chair the meet to discuss “all issues of mutual interest in bilateral, regional and international domain”, external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Thursday.

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Acknowledging that there are “friction points” in India-China ties, Swarup said the dialogue will strive for a holistic view of the relations between the two countries and see to what extent they can accommodate each other’s concerns and interests.

“India and China share a close development partnership and there are number of issues also between the two countries. While there are collaborative activities, there are also some friction points.

“The idea is that through the mechanism of this strategic dialogue, the foreign secretary from our side and his Chinese counterpart can take a holistic view of India-China relations and see to what extent the two sides can accommodate each other’s concerns and interests,” he said.

Maintaining that the upcoming Strategic Dialogue, which was set up during the visit of Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in August last year, was a new mechanism, Swarup said it is a more “comprehensive” forum.

India-China ties have witnessed strain following Beijing’s rigid stand on issues crucial to India such as membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group and designation of JeM chief and Pathankot attack mastermind Masood Azhar as global terrorist by the UN.

Not only China scuttled India’s membership bid at the meeting of NSG last year, it also opposed banning of Azhar by the UN, apparently at the behest of its “all-weather” friend Pakistan.

On Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry also said it has lodged a protest with India for hosting a Taiwanese parliamentary delegation and asked it to deal “prudently” with Taiwan-related matters. New Delhi dismissed the protest saying no “political meanings” should be read into such trips.

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