{"id":212106,"date":"2023-03-03T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212106"},"modified":"2023-03-03T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:02:21","slug":"jaishankar-meets-chinese-counterpart-focus-on-border-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/jaishankar-meets-chinese-counterpart-focus-on-border-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart; focus on border situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 2 Mar:<\/strong> External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held bilateral talks with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang with a focus on the situation along the line of actual control (LAC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discussions took place on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on sidelines of #G20FMM this afternoon. Our discussions were focused on addressing current challenges to the bilateral relationship, especially peace and tranquillity in the border areas,&#8221; Jaishankar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the first meeting between Jaishankar and Gang after the latter became the Chinese foreign minister in December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks came nearly eight months after Jaishankar held a meeting with the then Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in Bali on the sidelines of a G20 meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the one-hour meeting on 7 July, Jaishankar had conveyed to Yi the need for early resolution of all the outstanding issues in eastern Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The external affairs minister had told Yi that the relationship between the two countries should be based on &#8220;three mutuals&#8221; &#8211; mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yi had visited India in March last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 22 February, India and China held in-person diplomatic talks in Beijing and discussed proposals for disengagement in the remaining friction points along the LAC in eastern Ladakh in an &#8220;open and constructive manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting took place under the framework of the working mechanism for consultation and coordination on India-China border affairs. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 2 Mar: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held bilateral talks with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang with a focus on the situation along the line of actual control (LAC). The discussions took place on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers&#8217; meeting. &#8220;Met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on sidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}