Bid to end standoff: Khurshid to visit China on 9 May
26 April 2013 8:21 AM IST
While taking a tough stand on the face-off over alleged Chinese troops incursion in Ladakh, India is also resorting to diplomacy to resolve the issue. This is clear from the confirmation of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s visit to China on 9 May.
Indian troops and Chinese forces are facing a face-off situation after latter allegedly intruded deep inside Depsang Valley in Ladakh ten days back.
Khurshid’s trip comes ahead of the visit by newly-elected Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India in mid-May. A lot of significance is being attached to Li’s visit, his first abroad after becoming Prime Minister last month.
Khurshid expressed confidence that India and China will be able to resolve the situation at hand. Noting that there was a working mechanism between the two countries to deal with such issues, Khurshid says that ‘Let us allow that mechanism to find its solution and repeatedly it has found. And we have good reasons to believe that it should be able to do it again.’
Earlier during his speech at FICCI, Khurshid said ‘disagreement’ on any issue is not ‘betrayal’.
‘People ask me what is wrong with India that all its neighbours are not its friends, what is wrong with India? And I tell them, you have an idea of friendship which is different from mine. My idea of friendship is when you are frank, free with each other, you have expectations and you deliver.’
‘You agree and you disagree, but you have constant faith that a disagreement is not betrayal,’ he said.
Indian troops and Chinese forces are facing a face-off situation after latter allegedly intruded deep inside Depsang Valley in Ladakh ten days back.
Khurshid’s trip comes ahead of the visit by newly-elected Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India in mid-May. A lot of significance is being attached to Li’s visit, his first abroad after becoming Prime Minister last month.
Khurshid expressed confidence that India and China will be able to resolve the situation at hand. Noting that there was a working mechanism between the two countries to deal with such issues, Khurshid says that ‘Let us allow that mechanism to find its solution and repeatedly it has found. And we have good reasons to believe that it should be able to do it again.’
Earlier during his speech at FICCI, Khurshid said ‘disagreement’ on any issue is not ‘betrayal’.
‘People ask me what is wrong with India that all its neighbours are not its friends, what is wrong with India? And I tell them, you have an idea of friendship which is different from mine. My idea of friendship is when you are frank, free with each other, you have expectations and you deliver.’
‘You agree and you disagree, but you have constant faith that a disagreement is not betrayal,’ he said.
Next Story
