Beijing:
India and China have made progress on the modalities to resume Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in 2025, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) that will be held in Beijing on Wednesday after the official consultation between the Foreign Ministries of India and China.
Gourangalal Das, Joint Secretary (East Asia) at the MEA held a consultative meeting with Liu Jinsong, Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during which the two sides reviewed the action taken by them to implement the strategic direction as also the specific steps agreed in The Meeting between Foreign Secretary and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister in January 2025 to Stabilise and Rebuild Ties.
“They took a positive memorandum from the developments in the bilateral relations since the leaders of India and China in October 2024. In the intervening period, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs gathered twice, while the special representatives of the India-China Boundary question have given their 23rd meeting. A statement from the MEA.
“They agreed to continue the efforts to further facilitate and promote people-to-human exchanges, including arrangements for resumption of direct flights, interaction of media and think tanks, and celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The MEA stated that both parties this year also made an inventory of the planned fairs and activities, where they resume a step -by -step way of dialogue mechanisms to use them to tackle each other's priority areas important and concern and to relocate relationships to a more stable and predictable path.
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While DAS led the Indian delegation during the meeting, Hong Liang, director -general of the Boundary and Oceanic Affairs department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the Chinese delegation.
The meeting, the MEA said, was held in a “positive” and “constructive” atmosphere.
“Peace and tranquility on the border are crucial for the smooth development of the overall bilateral relations. The two parties have investigated various measures and proposals to implement the decisions made during the 23rd meeting of the special representatives of the India-China Boundary question in Beijing in December 2024.
“The two parties agreed to maintain and strengthen relevant diplomatic and military mechanisms in this end. They also exchanged the views on early resumption of cross-border cooperation and exchanges, including trans-borde rivers and Kailash-Manovar Yatra,” added.
During the meeting, both countries agreed to work together to make substantial preparations for the next meeting of the Special Representatives (SR), which will be held in India later this year. The Indian delegation leader also paid a courtesy call to the Chinese assistant minister of Foreign Affairs Hong Lei.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Miskri had visited Beijing on January 26-27 for a meeting of Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs between the two countries, after which both countries announced their decision to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer of 2025.
The meeting was held to revise the state of India-China bilateral relations, as agreed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Kazan last October.
During their discussions, Foreign Minister Miskri and Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong came in to take certain people-oriented steps to stabilize and rebuild ties.
Both parties also came in in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries with the relevant technical authorities to the two parties to negotiate an updated framework on an early date.
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