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India and China should appropriately address their differences and consolidate political trust by maintaining strategic communications between the top leaders, Chinese leaders said in their meetings with President Pranab Mukherjee, Chinese media reports.
“The two sides should appropriately address our differences,” President Xi Jinping told Mukherjee during their meeting here yesterday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Describing Mukherjee as a “seasoned statesman” and “an old friend of China”, Xi pledged to boost the strategic and cooperative partnership with India and proposed that the two sides consolidate political trust by maintaining strategic communication between state leaders and making use of various bilateral dialogue mechanisms.
The cooperation and development of China and India will not only benefit one-third of the global population, but also help global economic recovery and growth, Li said.
Mukherjee’s four-day visit to China ended today with a meeting with State Councillor Yang Jiechi, who is also China’s Special Representative for boundary talks with India.
Briefing media on Mukherjee-Xi talks, Director General of Asia department of the foreign ministry Xiao Qian said the two leaders agreed to work to resolve differences by every effort but at the same time, be realistic.
“It means they will manage well, the issues that cannot be addressed in a very short time so that these disagreements will not stand in the way of our development and cooperation,” Xiao said yesterday.
The two leaders also agreed to further advance the boundary negotiations under the framework of special representatives so that the tranquillity and peace of the boundary region will be maintained, he said.