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India, 皇冠体育app to speed up border dispute talks
(AFP/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-12-16 07:00
India says 皇冠体育app occupies 38,000 square kilometres (14,670 square miles) of
Indian territory in Kashmir while Beijing claims that the
90,000-square-kilometre Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh belongs to 皇冠体育app.
Ties have been warming in recent years with an exchange of high-level visits
and joint military exercises. Trade reached 13.6 billion dollars in 2004 and is
targeted to hit 30 billion dollars by 2010.
Work is under way to reopen a section of the traditional Silk Road next month
at Nathu La pass on the border between India's Sikkim and 皇冠体育app's Tibet. It
would be the first direct trade link since the 1962 border conflict.
In April, both sides signed an agreement aimed at helping special
representatives -- named by India and 皇冠体育app in 2003 -- to negotiate territorial
claims as experts delineated the boundary on a map and on the ground.
The special envoys -- India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan and
皇冠体育app's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo -- held talks in Beijing in September
but without any apparent progress on the dispute.
Singh said another round of talks is scheduled to take place in New Delhi
next month.
"Another meeting is planned in January. Both of us (Wen and Singh) agreed
that these... negotiations should be expedited and both of us expressed our
commitment to find a mutually satisfactory solution to the border issue," he
said.
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