China, India resume border talks
India: A long-delayed round of sensitive border talks between Chinese
and Indian diplomats is scheduled to take place in India from Sunday to
Tuesday, the foreign ministry in Beijing said.
Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Indian National Security
Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon will attend the 15th meeting between special
representatives on Sino-Indian border issues, the ministry said on its
website.
China and India share a 2,000-kilometre (1,200-mile) border which has
never been formally delimited.
The talks were cancelled in November after reports that Beijing
objected to a scheduled speech in New Delhi by Tibetan spiritual leader
the Dalai Lama, who China's one-party Communist government labels a
separatist.
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against
Chinese rule. He later founded the government in exile in the northern
Indian town Dharamshala after being offered refuge.
China and India began discussing border issues in the 1980s and have
signed two agreements to maintain peace and stability in frontier areas,
in 1993 and 1996.
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