The Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday that the Ministry of External Affairs visited Singapore and China from 13 to 15 July.
In Singapore, he would “meet his counterpart and Singapore as part of regular exchange between our two countries,” Mea said.
Subsequently, he will visit China’s People’s Republic to participate in the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting (CFM) to be held in Tianjin. Jaishankar will also hold bilateral meetings on the occasion of the meeting of Foreign Ministers.
A statement by a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that a meeting of the Foreign Affairs ministers of the Thesangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Tianjin on 15 July.
The statement said that at the invitation of the Communist Party of China and the Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s political bureau, other SCO members will attend the major meeting of the Foreign Minister of the states and the major bodies of the block.
The minister will exchange views on SCO cooperation in various fields and major international and regional issues.
Wang can visit India this month, which has learned this to organize a new round of negotiations with NSA Ajit Doval under the structure of Special delegates (SR) dialogues on border disputes.
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Both Wang and Dowal are the nominated SRS of the border mechanism. The two countries held 23 rounds of talks under the SRS mechanism to resolve the dispute, but without success.
This will be Jaishankar’s first visit to China since military deadlock with lac in East Ladakh in May 2020.
The meeting of foreign ministers will also set a platform for the summit of SCO leaders in Tianjin, which is expected to be held in early September.
Jaishankar’s visit was traveled by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and NSA Doval, who visited China in June last week for SCO meetings. Singh attended the conference of SCO Defense Ministers in Kingdao.
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During his conversation with Chinese Defense Minister General Dong June on 26 June, Singh proposed that India and China should solve “complex issues” under a structured roadmap, including steps to reduce tension with borders and rejuvenate the existing mechanism.
Singh and Dong held bilateral talks on the edge of a conclave by the SCO, focusing on maintaining peace and peace with LAC.
Singh, as a result of an Indian readout at the meeting on 27 June, also emphasized the need to create a “good neighbor situation” to bridge the “Trust Defisit” as a result of the 2020 Eastern Ladakh border deadlock and called for “action on the ground”.
Reacting to Singh’s statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning had said that the border question is “complex, and it takes time to settle it”.
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