Mr Qin’s visit to India will be China’s foreign minister’s first after 2019.
Beijing:
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will travel to India this week to attend the meeting of G20 foreign ministers on March 2, the foreign ministry announced here on Tuesday.
Qin’s visit to India will be China’s foreign minister’s first after his predecessor Wang Yi’s visit to New Delhi in 2019 to attend the special representatives’ dialogue on the border mechanism.
Wang and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval were the special representatives. At the invitation of his Indian counterpart Minster S. Jaishankar, Foreign Minister Qin will attend the meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi, India on March 2, the announcement here said.
Relations between the two countries have been virtually frozen since the military standoff in eastern Ladakh between the two countries in May 2020.
The two countries have held talks with 17 high-level military commanders to resolve the standoff.
India has maintained that ties with China can only be normal if there is peace in the border areas.
India assumed the presidency of the G20 on December 1 last year.
G20 members represent about 85 percent of global GDP, more than 75 percent of world trade and about two-thirds of the world’s population.
The member countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the US.
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