India-China NSAs begin border talks

TIL Desk/World/New Delhi/ National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart state councillor Yang Jiechi began the next round of formal negotiations on the boundary issue today. This comes almost four months after the 73-day-long military stand-off at the Doklam plateau in the tri-junction region.

In the 20th round of special representatives talks since the establishment of the Special Representatives mechanism in 2003, Doval and Jiechi are expected to discuss ways to maintain peace and tranquillity along the 4,000-km-long border.The two representatives will also discuss the Doklam stand-off. Last Doval and Jiechi had met during the BRICS summit in Xiamen in September.

Reportedly, the decision to hold talks in the connection was taken at a meeting held last week between External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Russia-India-China (RIC) conference. However, the announcement of the meeting was made by MEA on Wednesday.