New Delhi, Nov 25: Special representatives of India and China will have a second time in Beijing as part of political efforts for an early solution to the boundary problem, Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said today.
The dates for the meeting are being explored through
diplomatic channels, he said.
With the two countries working on confidence-building
measures, Air India would fly to China from next month, he
told reporters here on the sidelines of the India Economic
Summit 2003.
"The journey (for normalisation of Sino-India ties) has
begun. We have to give time as there are no magic solutions,"
Sibal said.
National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and senior vice
minister of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Dai Bingguo, the two
special representatives, had met for the first round of
boundary talks here last month.
The decision to appoint the special representatives was
proposed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his
landmark visit to China in June and was promptly accepted by
his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao.
It was felt that there had already been 14 rounds of the
India-China Joint Working Group on the boundary question and
the movement had been painfully slow.
Bureau Report
