External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Chinese foreign minister H.E. Wang Yi held talks in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on Tuesday.
The two leaders reviewed progress in the disengagement of troops in Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh. It was agreed in their discussion that a meeting of the Special Representatives and of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister mechanism will take place soon.
Both Jaishankar and Wang discussed resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra pilgrimage, data sharing on trans-border rivers, direct flights between India and China and media exchanges, the MEA said in a statement.
Jaishankar noted that India and China have both differences and convergences on the global situation and international issues. “We have worked constructively in the BRICS and the SCO framework. Our cooperation in the G20 has also been evident,” he said.
The EAM further underscored that India is strongly committed to a multipolar world, including a multipolar Asia. “We are against unilateral approaches to establish dominance. India does not view its relationships through the prism of other nations.”
Wang, meanwhile, said both India and China should implement the important consensus reached by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at their summit in Russia.
He said the successful meeting between Xi and Modi and the restart of China-India relations are in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples, the expectations of Global South countries and the right direction of history.
In their meeting, both Modi and Xi had endorsed the India-China agreement on patrolling and disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and issued directions to revive various bilateral dialogue mechanisms, signalling attempts to normalise ties that were hit by a deadly military clash in 2020.