Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : China welcomed remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Russia regarding the status of India-China ties, and stressed that a positive relationship between Beijing and New Delhi was of global significance.
“We have noted the positive remark made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the China- India (situation). We welcome that,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying observed during her regular media briefing.
“The two major countries China and India maintaining sound and steady bilateral relationship is of great significance,” she observed.
Ms. Hua was responding to a question regarding observations by Prime Minister in St. Petersburg, where he had stressed, during a panel discussion, that despite their border dispute, the China-India frontier was peaceful for the last four decades. “It is true that we have a border dispute with China. But in the last 40 years, not a single bullet has been fired because of it,” he said.
During an interview with Russia Television (RT), Mr. Modi had said that “the 21st century is the century of Asia”. “It means that both India and China will influence the situation of the world in the coming decades.”
Earlier in the day, China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Li Huilai had welcomed the “multiple meetings” between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and pointed out that “healthy relations” between China and India would contribute “to Asia (as well as) world peace stability”.
