Harbin (China), October 25
China today for the first time publicly said that “mutual concessions and adjustments” were a must to reach an early deal on the vexed boundary issue with India for which the two governments have set up a working group to prepare a framework agreement.
China would make joint efforts with India under relevant political guiding principles and it hoped the two countries could understand each other, “make mutual concessions and adjustments” so as to strive for an early agreement on a framework which would be fair, rational and acceptable for both sides on resolving the border issue, Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi told external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee here.
Yang said that China would firmly support the Chinese and Indian special representatives’ work on resolving the bilateral border issue, the official Xinhua news agency reported, carrying the Chinese version of the meeting.
He said that thanks to the concerted efforts by both sides, bilateral ties had maintained healthy development.
— PTI
