Express News Service
NEW DELHI: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in India on Thursday for a two-day visit. He is in India after attending the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Pakistan, where he supported their stand on Kashmir.
This evoked a lot of criticism in India and the Ministry of External Affairs issued a reaction suggesting that he or anyone else refrain from commenting on India’s internal matters. Wang made, what was stated to be an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, and he met his counterpart there.
In a release by Taliban, it was stated that besides political, developmental and diplomatic ties, there was talk of commencing mining work by China in Afghanistan. On Friday, the Chinese foreign minister is likely to meet External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
This is the first official visit of a senior Chinese official since the Galwan episode in 2020. India hopes there is a resolution on the LAC. Meanwhile, Jaishankar, at his college alumni meet on Thursday, said, “India faces more than its fair share of external challenges because so many of our boundaries have not been settled.
Given the serious repercussions, diplomacy is also very relevant to ensuring peace and tranquility if not more.” It’s for the same reason that India will try to work out a peaceful resolution of the LAC, despite the hard feelings due to China’s comment on Kashmir, he said.
“Where China was concerned, the diplomatic interactions that are going on in parallel to the military stand-off since May 2020 illustrate that foreign and defence policies are really joined at the hip. Here too, the value of global support and understanding is self-evident,” added the external affairs minister.
Ministry slams comments on India made at OIC event in Islamabad New Delhi: India has taken a stern view of what was pronounced during the recent meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Islamabad and labelled it as irrelevant. India has objected to Pakistan’s narrative on Kashmir, comparing it to Syria and Palestine, and also to China’s foreign minister saying that India has been fighting an armed rebellion in Kashmir. “The statements and resolutions adopted at the meeting demonstrate both the irrelevance of the OIC as a body and role of Pakistan as its manipulator,’’ said Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. “References were made to India based on falsehoods and misrepresentation. The absurdity of this body commenting on the treatment of minorities is so evident,” Bagchi said.
