Beijing: India’s neighboring country China wants a formal agreement with India on a Code of Conduct to maintain peace along border rather than clarification of Line of Actual Control which had been proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proposed it while his visit to China this year in May.
Deputy Director General of the Asian Affairs at the Foreign Ministry Huang Xilian while outlining China’s first public reaction to Prime Minister Modi’s proposal, said that both sides should try to reach an agreement on Code of Conduct as attempts to clarify mutual positions on the LAC had “encountered difficulties” in the past.
While responding to a question, he said, “Whatever we do in the border area it should be constructive. That means it should be a building block for the process of negotiations not stumbling block.”
Huang said, “If we find that clarification of the LAC is building block then we should go ahead. But if we find that it is a stumbling block it could complicate the situation further. We have to be careful.”
He also told an Indian media delegation on the outcome of Modi’s three-day visit in May.
Huang said, “Our position is that we have to seek some kind of comprehensive measures, not only one measure to control and manage the border to ensure peace and tranquillity along the border. We can try and reach an agreement on the Code of Conduct.”
He said, “We tried to clarify some years ago but it encountered some difficulties, which led to even complex situation. That is why whatever we do we should make it more conducive to peace and tranquillity for making things easier and not to make them complicated.”
Bureau Report
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