Swaraj in China for strategic talks, SCO meet
22 April 2018 4:58 AM IST
Beijing: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived here on Saturday on a four-day visit during which she will hold crucial talks to normalise bilateral ties with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and take part in the foreign ministers' meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Swaraj is due to meet Wang today.
This is their first meeting after Wang was elevated as state councillor last month which makes him the top diplomat of the country in the Chinese hierarchy. He also continues to be foreign minister. Their meeting is part of efforts by the two countries to step up the pace of high-level interactions to improve relations, official sources here said. Following the Dokalam standoff last year both countries increased dialogue to scale down tensions and improve relations with talks at various levels.
Swaraj and Wang are meeting in the immediate backdrop of the recent meeting between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and top official of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) Yang Jiechi in Shanghai. Both sides also held the 11th Joint Economic Group meeting and the fifth Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED).
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