BRICS Summit 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping will meet

 


BRICS Summit 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping are scheduled to engage in formal discussions for the first time in five years. The meeting will take place on Wednesday at the BRICS summit in Russia. This will mark their initial formal conversation since the escalation of border conflicts in eastern Ladakh in May 2020. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to participate in a bilateral meeting on Wednesday during the BRICS summit in Russia, representing their first official interaction since border tensions heightened in eastern Ladakh in May 2020, according to PTI. The declaration was made by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, following the finalization of an agreement between India and China on patrolling activities by their respective armed forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

The agreement is considered a significant development in the ongoing efforts to resolve the four-year military standoff between the two countries, according to the report. "I can verify that there is a scheduled bilateral meeting between PM Modi and President Xi Jinping tomorrow (Wednesday) during the BRICS Summit," stated Misri as reported by PTI. Despite briefly exchanging pleasantries at the G20 summit in Indonesia in 2022, this meeting will mark their first formal discussion since tensions escalated along the border.

The most recent informal interaction between the two leaders was in August 2023 during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, according to a PTI report. The upcoming meeting will take place in Kazan, the designated host city for the BRICS summit. Regarding the new patrolling agreement reached on Monday, Misri noted that the primary objective is currently on disengagement, with forthcoming discussions anticipated for troop de-escalation. "The patrolling and grazing operations in the specified regions will return to the conditions observed in 2020," Misri stated to PTI.



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