New Delhi: India and China are moving sensibly in the right direction on the border issue but no immediate result is expected from the talks as they are “very complicated” and “sensitive”, External Affair Minister Salman Khurshid said on Monday.
He was asked on the progress on talks between the two nations on the border issue during the visit of India’s special envoy to China. The Minister said that the two nations were moving in the right direction in a very sensible way and “its comforting for both the sides”.
On reports of India freezing development assistance to Maldives following its government’s decision to take over the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in Male from GMR-led consortium, the minister denied any such development and said it was essentially a legal issue.
The minister termed as “extremely sad” the suspicious death of an Indian-origin nurse, who was duped into transferring a hoax call that gave away information about pregnant Kate, Duchess of Cambridge’s condition to Australian radio presenters.
Earlier, while addressing the annual convention of Indian Association of International Studies on “The Dawning of Asian Century: Emerging challenges before theory and practices of IR in India”, Khurshid said, “Globally India is wanted on various fora like G-20 to play significant role on security and environment issues.
China’s richness would add to India’s strength and India’s to China,” Khurshid said, adding combined strength of India and China would benefit not only the two nations but entire Asia. (PTI)
