China - India and China sign border cooperation agreement 23.10.2013

China, India sign border cooperation agreement

BEIJING : China and India have signed a confidence-building measure to cooperate on border defense following a standoff between armed forces of the two Asian giants in disputed territory earlier this year.

The agreement followed a meeting in Beijing between visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.   

   

Li said that Wednesday’s meeting will `’inject new momentum and vitality into the China-India relationship.”  

   

Relations between the nations are overshadowed by a half-century-old border dispute over which they fought a brief but bloody war in 1962.

 

More than a dozen rounds of talks have failed to resolve the issue, and the two sides had a three-week standoff at their frontier earlier this year.--AP  

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 23 October 2013. Singh is in China for a three day official visit. EPA/Peng Sun

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