Modi -Xi Informal Meeting Lays Down Protocol For A Terror Free World With Balanced Development For All
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives Chinese President Xi Jinping a guided tour of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, India.
India and China are, both important contemporary civilizations with more than 7000 years of recorded history and traditions. Being neighbours both must strengthen mutual understanding and jointly promote exchanges of dialogue at various levels for understanding the subtle differences in the two cultures and civilizations.
During the second informal meeting in the southern Indian city of Chennai, Modi and Xi exchanged in-depth views on overarching, long-term and strategic issues of global and regional importance, and agreed to enhance the closer development partnership of the two countries. The just-concluded informal meeting achieved fruitful outcomes said a senior Chinese diplomat.
The two leaders reaffirmed the consensus reached during their first informal meeting in China’s central city of Wuhan last year that India and China offer each other chances for development.
Modi and Xi spoke highly of the development of bilateral ties, agreed to enhance communication in experience of state governance and strengthen synergy of development strategies, and discussed how to deepen bilateral exchanges so as to demonstrate the increasingly important roles of both countries on the world stage.
The two leaders agreed that both India and China are committed to building a peaceful, secure and prosperous world, in which all countries can seek development in a world order based on international law.
Modi and Xi agreed that a rules-based multilateral trading system should be supported and strengthened, and the two countries will continue to work for open and inclusive trade arrangements that will bring benefits to all countries.
They said that both countries are committed to combating terrorism in all forms, and called on the international community to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation.
The two leaders agreed to designate 2020 as the India- China year of cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and hold 70 events next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the India-China diplomatic relations.
The leaders agreed to establish a high-level economic and trade dialogue mechanism between India and China in a bid to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment cooperation and to promote a balanced development of their economic and trade relations.
Modi and Xi reaffirmed that both sides will continue to maintain peace and tranquility in border areas and will work on additional confidence building measures through consultation, while urging the special representatives of the two countries to figure out a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the border issue, according to the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister.
They also agreed that informal meetings have provided an important opportunity for the two sides to deepen dialogue and enhance mutual understanding, and that they will maintain such kind of meetings as well as other forms of strategic communication.
