TIL Desk/World/New Delhi/ Endorsing the idea of trilateral cooperation between India, China and Pakistan under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Beijing’s envoy Luo Zhaohui on Monday said such an arrangement could “in the future” help resolve bilateral issues between New Delhi and Islamabad. Reacting to Luo’s remarks about a possible trilateral summit, the ministry of external affairs said matters related to India-Pakistan ties are “purely bilateral in nature” and have “no scope for involvement of any third party”.
The Chinese envoy to India also said that the India-China bilateral ties can’t take the strain of another Doklam episode and emphasised the need to find a “mutually acceptable solution” on the border dispute through a meeting of special representatives. He said “some Indian friends” had suggested trilateral cooperation comprising India, China and Pakistan under the aegis of the SCO, which was a “very constructive idea”.
“Security cooperation is one of the three pillars of the SCO. Some Indian friends suggested that China, India and Pakistan may have some kind of trilateral cooperation under the SCO,” he said in his keynote address on ‘Beyond Wuhan: How Far and Fast can China-India Relations Go’ at an event organised by the Chinese embassy in New Delhi.
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