*India and China may have yet another round of informal talks on boundary dispute next week, when National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon will play host to Chinese State Councillor and his counterpart, Dai Bingguo, in New Delhi. *
Menon and Dai are at present Special Representatives of India and China for the talks to resolve the boundary dispute.
The Chinese State Councillor's visit to New Delhi for a BRICS (a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) meeting from January 9 to 11 is likely to give the two Special Representatives yet another opportunity to have an informal round of talks before the change of regime in the communist country in March.
Dai, who will also leave office in March, and Menon had a similar informal round of talks in Beijing on December 3 and 4, when they reviewed the progress of the SR-level talks on the boundary issue since it was launched in 2003.
They also prepared a "common understanding" report enlisting the progresses in the talks.
Though Dai is coming to Delhi to take part in the meeting of BRICS high representatives on national security, he may have informal talks on the boundary dispute with Menon on the sidelines of the conclave.
The two countries have had 15 rounds of talks at the level of Special Representatives since 2003, with the last being held on January 16-17 this year.
The next round of formal talks will take place only after March, when Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will replace Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as China's new president and premier respectively and a successor to Dai will take over as the new State Councillor of the communist country. Both New Delhi and Beijing are understood to be in favour of continuing the SR-level talks to resolve the boundary dispute.
After the first five rounds of parleys between the two Special Representatives, India and China signed an agreement on the political parameters and guiding principles for the settlement of the dispute, signaling the end of the first phase of the process.
The two countries have since been engaged in talks for giving shape to a framework for settling the boundary dispute. After agreeing on the framework, the two Special Representatives are expected to begin the third and final phase of the process to agree on the actual border.
The 15th round of talks in January ended with the two countries agreeing to set up the "Working Mechanism on Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs" - an additional arrangement at the level of senior diplomats to maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control till New Delhi and Beijing resolve the protracted boundary dispute. Reported by Deccan Herald 1 hour ago.
Menon and Dai are at present Special Representatives of India and China for the talks to resolve the boundary dispute.
The Chinese State Councillor's visit to New Delhi for a BRICS (a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) meeting from January 9 to 11 is likely to give the two Special Representatives yet another opportunity to have an informal round of talks before the change of regime in the communist country in March.
Dai, who will also leave office in March, and Menon had a similar informal round of talks in Beijing on December 3 and 4, when they reviewed the progress of the SR-level talks on the boundary issue since it was launched in 2003.
They also prepared a "common understanding" report enlisting the progresses in the talks.
Though Dai is coming to Delhi to take part in the meeting of BRICS high representatives on national security, he may have informal talks on the boundary dispute with Menon on the sidelines of the conclave.
The two countries have had 15 rounds of talks at the level of Special Representatives since 2003, with the last being held on January 16-17 this year.
The next round of formal talks will take place only after March, when Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will replace Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as China's new president and premier respectively and a successor to Dai will take over as the new State Councillor of the communist country. Both New Delhi and Beijing are understood to be in favour of continuing the SR-level talks to resolve the boundary dispute.
After the first five rounds of parleys between the two Special Representatives, India and China signed an agreement on the political parameters and guiding principles for the settlement of the dispute, signaling the end of the first phase of the process.
The two countries have since been engaged in talks for giving shape to a framework for settling the boundary dispute. After agreeing on the framework, the two Special Representatives are expected to begin the third and final phase of the process to agree on the actual border.
The 15th round of talks in January ended with the two countries agreeing to set up the "Working Mechanism on Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs" - an additional arrangement at the level of senior diplomats to maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control till New Delhi and Beijing resolve the protracted boundary dispute. Reported by Deccan Herald 1 hour ago.