The Tribune

India, China talks on ‘right’ track

Kumarakom (Kerala), March 13, 2006

India and China concluded the seventh round of Special Representative talks on 13 March and aimed at finding a mutually-acceptable solution to the protracted boundary dispute within the framework of Political Parameters and Guiding Principles.

A statement issued after the three-day talks said the discussions “for an agreed framework for the resolution of the boundary question” were held in a “constructive and friendly atmosphere”.

National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Chinese Executive Vice-President Dai Bingguo led the respective countries at the talks, which took place in Delhi and Kumarakom.

The next meeting of the Special Representatives would take place in China on mutually-convenient dates, the statement said.

Mr Narayanan said yesterday the parleys were moving in the right direction to “extricate” them from “logjam” and the delineation issue could be settled after the next two to three rounds.

“The talks are moving in the right direction. The two countries are working to evolve a methodology for the settlement of the dispute, based on parameters and guiding principles agreed to between the two governments earlier,” Mr. Narayanan told reporters here.

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