New Delhi, June 22 : To take forward the dialogue process with China to resolve the boundary issue, India’s Special Representative M K Narayanan will leave for Beijing this week end to hold two days of talks with his Chinese counterpart Dai Bingguo from June 26.
This will be the eighth round of talks between the two neighbours to discuss an agreed framework for resolution of the boundary question in a constructive and friendly atmosphere, official sources said on Wednesday.
National Security Advisor Narayanan had met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai here in March for the previous round of parleys to find a fair and reasonable framework acceptable to both sides for a final settlement of the protracted issue.
China has stated that it believed that as long as the two sides proceed forward and conduct patient, thorough and friendly consultations in the spirit of mutual understanding and mutual accommodation, they could reach a fair and reasonable framework acceptable to both sides, so as to lay the foundation for the final settlement of the boundary issue.
During their talks in Beijing next week, the Special Representatives are expected to continue their discussions on the framework for resolving the border issue from the political perspective and keeping in view the overall bilateral relations.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee had visited China last month and the two countries had then signed their first-ever MoU to institutionalise military training and had expressed their “endeavour” to hold joint military exercises and training programmes to add more content to emerging strategic relations between them.
