PM Manmohan Singh meets Chinese President , raises Brahmaputra issue

[Backbencher]

The Prime Minister is understood to have
conveyed to President Xi concerns in India
over the Chinese proposal to construct three
dams across Brahmaputra.



DURBAN: In the first-high level contact
after the new Chinese leadership took
over, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
met President Xi Jinping and raised the
issue of Beijing's proposal to construct
three dams across the Brahmaputra river
on its side.
Singh called on President Xi, who took
over as president earlier this month as
part of decadal change of power
structure in China, on the sidelines of the
BRICS Summit which the two leaders
attended here.
This is the first face-to-face meeting
between the two leaders at the highest
level after the recent change in power
structure in China.
"Water was discussed," official sources
said tersely after a 25-minute meeting
late last night after the summit without
getting into specifics.
The Prime Minister is understood to have
conveyed to President Xi concerns in
India over the Chinese proposal to
construct three dams across
Brahmaputra.
India has said the proposal would affect
water flow to India while China says it
was just run-of-the mill project that
would not hold water.
The entire expanse of the bilateral
relationship was discussed and the
meeting was very positive, the sources
said.
The two leaders expressed regards for
each other. All aspects of the relationship
were discussed but the South China issue
was not not discussed, the sources said.
Asked whether border and trade issues
were discussed, the sources maintained
that all aspects of bilateral relations came
up for discussion.
Both expressed a desire to continue their
relationship.
The sources said during an informal
discussion at the summit earlier in the
day, President Xi told Singh that he was
aware that the Prime Minister had good
relations with his predecessor Hu Jintao
and Premier Wen Jiabao and he would
like to carry forward that.
Last week, in an interaction with BRICS
journalists in Beijing, Xi had said he was
looking forward to meeting Singh in
Durban.
Xi had warm words about relations with
India and proposed a five-point formula
under which both the countries would
accommodate each other's concerns in
matters of "core interests".
Xi, who has also assumed the role of
chief of the Communist Party and army,
had said the boundary question was
complex left behind by history and peace
and tranquility should be maintained.
Pending settlement of the issue, both the
countries should not allow differences to
come in the way of overall development
of the bilateral ties.
At the meeting, the Prime Minister
invited President Xi to visit India to
which he said he accepted it and would
make the visit at an appropriate time.
Similarly, the president extended an
invitation to Singh to visit China and he
reciprocated it in a similar vein.
Singh was assisted by national security
adviser Shivshankar Menon while Xi was
assisted by the new foreign minister, two
politburo members and Yang Jeichi, state
counsellor who has replaced Dai Binguo,
who was the special representative with
the Indian SR Menon for the dialogue.


PM Manmohan Singh meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, raises Brahmaputra issue - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

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Xi says world needs common development of China, India - Xinhua | English.news.cn
DURBAN, South Africa, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Wednesday that the world needs the common development of China and India and can provide sufficient room for the two neighbors' development.

Xi made the remarks during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a summit of BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- in the South African port city of Durban.

China and India, as the world's two largest developing nations, have a similar historic mission to boost their social and economic development, Xi said.

Both countries are in an important period of strategic opportunities, he said, adding that China-India relations have broad prospects for development.

China, which regards its ties with India as one of the most important bilateral relationship, commits itself to pushing forward the two countries' strategic cooperative partnership, Xi said.

He called on the two sides to maintain high-level reciprocal visits and contacts, make full use of political dialogues and consultations at various levels to strengthen strategic and political communication.

China and India should broaden exchanges and cooperation between their armed forces and deepen mutual military and security trust, Xi said.

The Chinese president said the two countries, with the help of such cooperative mechanisms as strategic and economic dialogue, should also discuss their cooperation on large-scale infrastructure projects.

Xi also called for enhancing people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, and broadening youth exchanges.

He said the two sides should strengthen coordination and cooperation within the United Nations, BRICS, the G20 and other multilateral groupings, support each other's participation in regional cooperation, and promote peace, stability and development in Asia.

On the border issue, Xi said China and India should improve and make good use of the mechanism of special representatives to strive for a fair, rational solution framework acceptable to both sides as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, he said, the two sides should continue to safeguard peace in their border areas and prevent the issue from affecting bilateral relations.

Singh expressed admiration for China's achievements in development, saying that developing good-neighborly and friendly relations with China and realizing common development along with China is a priority of the country's foreign policy.

India hopes to continue to maintain high-level exchanges, dialogue and communication with China, he added.

He also voiced the hope that the two countries would respect each other's core interests and major concerns, deepen mutual strategic trust, strengthen coordination and cooperation on international affairs, and safeguard peace and stability in the region and the world at large.

Singh said his country, which adheres to an independent foreign policy, will not be used as a tool to contain China, adding that India is willing to make concerted efforts with China to show the world that they are cooperative partners instead of rivals.

India will abide by political guidelines set by both sides and seek a solution to the bilateral border issue from a strategic height with a commitment to safeguard peace in their border areas, he said.

The Indian prime minister said his country recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region is a part of the Chinese territory and that India will not allow Tibetans to conduct political activities against China in India.

 

[HongWu]

No water until you leave occupied Southern Tibet and Kashmir!

 

[iajj]

No water until you leave occupied Southern Tibet and Kashmir!

indeed we must not let yindoos' sinister plan of isolating the water issue succeed! this single issue highlights all the deviancy of yindoo foreign policy: its dishonesty, its hypocrisy, its immorality, its aggression, its bullying. it is in china's vital interests that the water issue is deeply embedded in a web of yindoo bad behavior and cannot be resolved in isolation of all its other crimes with its smaller neighbors.

 

[Tractor]

Just a test to make sure this Xi really know nothing about facts of Arunachal and has no idea it is a chinese territory occupied by India.