China, India to strengthen military ties
CHINA: Chinese and Indian senior military officials met in Beijing
Monday and agreed to strengthen ties. Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of
China's Central Military Commission, met with Indian Defense Secretary
Shashi Kant Sharma.
Xu said China and India, being the biggest developing countries in
the world, are important neighbors for each other.
He noted that the two countries have extensive common interests and
developing friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation is in line with
the common aspiration of the two peoples as well as global development.
He said that he believes that the two countries have enough wisdom and
ability to handle their relationship and are able to pave a healthy and
stable development path for it.
Xu said China attaches great importance in developing military ties
with India and hopes to increase mutual strategic trust, enhance
friendly communication and deepen pragmatic cooperation in order to
promote the strategic partnership for peace and prosperity and make a
positive contribution to world and regional peace and stability. Sharma
said India attaches great importance to developing its relationship with
China and he is confident in the future progress of military relations
between the two countries.
XINHUA
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