External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be on a two-day visit to China beginning today. He will attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tianjin city tomorrow.
Akashvani’s correspondent reports that the Foreign Ministers will exchange views on SCO cooperation in various fields and major international and regional issues. The SCO grouping comprises 10 member states – India, China, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. China is the current chair of the SCO and is hosting the meetings of the grouping in that capacity.
Dr Jaishankar will also hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. Dr Jaishankar is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his visit to China. The two leaders are expected to take forward discussions to normalise bilateral relations and address the long-standing border dispute between India and China.
The two countries are currently engaged in the delicate task of normalising their ties after agreeing in October last year to end the face-off in Ladakh. It will be Dr Jaishankar’s first visit to China after the ties between the two countries came under strain following the 2020 military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
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