Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Vientiane, Laos, on Thursday and the two sides agreed to jointly commit to maintaining peace and tranquility in the border areas and promote new progress in border affairs consultations.
While meeting with Jaishankar in Vientiane on Thursday, Wang said that in the face of the current complex international situation and severe global challenges, China and India, as two
neighboring large developing countries and major emerging economies, should strengthen dialogue and communication, enhance understanding and mutual trust, properly manage conflicts and differences, and develop mutually beneficial cooperation.
Both sides should take on their responsibility to history, their peoples, and the world, with wisdom that transcends conflicts, differences and frictions, and promote the improvement and sustainable development of China-India relations, said Wang.
Jaishankar said India and China are the two most populous countries, two major emerging economies, and ancient civilizations with long histories. Maintaining a stable and predictable development of bilateral relations is in the interest of both sides and is of special importance to maintaining regional peace and promoting multipolarity.
The two sides said that they will strengthen communication within the East Asia cooperation platform, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Group of 20, BRICS and other frameworks, jointly practice multilateralism, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries.
