BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Wednesday to boost communication and cooperation between their countries. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia for their first formal talks in five years. The meeting in the city of Kazan came two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve the four-year military stand-off in the Himalayan region of Ladakh.
The two sides should strengthen communication and cooperation, resolve conflicts and differences, and realise each other's development dreams, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. In response, Modi told Xi that maintaining peace and stability on their frontier should be a priority, and that mutual trust, respect and sensitivity should be the basis of the relationship. "We welcome the agreement on the issues that had come up over the last four years," Modi told Xi in comments that were aired on India's state broadcaster Doordarshan. — Reuters
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