India, China discuss spate of incursions
India and China on discussed the recent spate of incursions and ways to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the border areas, re ports PTI. During the 5th round of India-China Strate gic Dialogue, resumed after nearly three years, the two sides discussed key bilateral, re gional and global issues of mutual interest including ways to reduce trade deficit and transborder rivers, Ministry of Exter nal Af fairs said here.
The Indian side was led by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and the Chinese side was led by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin during the dialogue which discussed ways to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the India-China border areas, the MEA said.
This comes in the backdrop of series of Chinese incursion in Ladakh sector, including a major 21day-long "face-to-face" situation in April. The two sides also took stock of developments in bilateral ties since the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang here and also prepared the g round for a possible visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to China later this year. The threehour-long meeting also focused on ways to expand bilateral trade and investment while addressing problems of the large and g rowing deficit faced by India. Setting up of industrial investment parks in the country to get inflow of money by entering into an MoU to this effect and export of cotton fabric to China with a target of $ six billion were among the points discussed in the meet.