A range of issues will be discussed during the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to China at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi. Mr. Mukherjee is going on an official tour to China for four days from June 4 to June 7.
In order to provide energy to the bilateral relationship, the two sides will hold discussions on international and regional issues of mutual interests comprising the age old border dispute, and the boosting trade relation between the two neighbouring nations.
It will be the first high-level meeting between the two countries after the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to China in January this year.
The two foreign ministers will hold “discussion on bilateral relations and regional and international issues of mutual interest,” an external affairs ministry statement said. It also said that Mukherjee will call on other ministers too including the premier, Wen Jiabao.
The meeting is expected to boost 'strategic partnership agreement', which the two countries made during PM's visit to China. China has so far praised India's stand on Tibet as India has yet refrained itself from issuing any remark regarding the former’s dealing with Tibet.
After Mukherjee's visit to China, its foreign minister is also planned to tour India later this year as a part of pre-proposed visit. India will also hold the second annual defence dialogue as well as the second joint military exercise in 2008 to continue the deepening mutual understanding and trust between the armed forces of the two countries.
Bilateral trade between the two countries has been revised to achieve the target to $60 billion by the end of 2010. Both ministers will also take a look on the ongoing trade between the two countries.
During Prime Minister’s visit earlier this year, the two sides positively appraised the work of the Special Representatives in seeking a mutually acceptable framework for a settlement on the boundary issue that will be based on the Agreement on Guiding Principles and Political Parameters signed in April 2005. India and China were also agreed to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas.
Pranab Mukherjee will also meet Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during his visit and will make a trip to Guangzhou to inaugurate the new Consulate General of India there.
It will be first official trip by Pranab Mukherjee as foreign minister to China since 2002, when foreign minister Jaswant Singh visited China.
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