China and India are likely to cooperate to keep their common border peaceful and stable after a recent positive round of negotiations that led to a 10-point consensus, the Chinese military said on Thursday.
The 24th Round of Talks on the India-China Boundary Question was conducted on August 19 in Delhi, with NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as the Special Representatives.
Speaking for the first time on the outcome of the dialogue, China's Defence Spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang reported that in the course of the talks, the two sides decided to utilize fully border management and control mechanisms through diplomatic and military channels.
Zhang emphasized that the talks were frank and substantive discussions on the China-India boundary problem in a friendly and constructive atmosphere, resulting in several agreements.
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, Zhang stressed that the two countries need to leverage the healthy momentum in their bilateral ties. According to him, they should seek out the right approach for the two great neighboring countries to engage each other based on mutual respect and trust, peaceful coexistence, mutual development, and win-win cooperation.
Among the concrete results of the Doval-Wang talks, five major agreements were made, including establishing an expert group under the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) to see if there can be an "early harvest in boundary delimitation."
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