India, China agree on resumption of Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, trade

The 23rd Meeting of the Special Representatives of India and China, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, was held in Beijing on Wedneaday. The Special Representatives met in accordance with the decision taken during the recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan for them to meet at an early date. They met to oversee the management of peace and tranquillity in border areas and to explore a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the boundary question.
Doval and Wang Yi reiterated the importance of maintaining a political perspective of the overall bilateral relationship while seeking a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable framework for the settlement of the boundary question, and resolved to inject more vitality into this process. This was the first meeting of the Special Representatives since frictions had emerged in the Western Sector of the India-China border areas in 2020. External Affairs Ministry said in a release that they positively affirmed the implementation of the latest disengagement agreement of October, resulting in patrolling and grazing in relevant areas. India and China reaffirmed their commitment to promote the resumption of Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, cross-border river cooperation and Nathula border trade.
"Based on the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries in the Kazan meeting, Chinese Special Representative, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Centra Foreign Affairs Office Wang Yi and Indian Special Representative and National Security Advisor Doval held substantive discussions on the China-India border issue in a positive and constructive manner and reached six consensuses," the Chinese foreign ministry release stated.