BRICS Summit kicks off; Xi, Modi display bonhomie
World | Sep 04, 2017, 10:35 AM ISTThe Summit will be the first gathering when the leaders will meet after New Delhi and Beijing decided to resolve the Doklam crisis
The Summit will be the first gathering when the leaders will meet after New Delhi and Beijing decided to resolve the Doklam crisis
All eyes are on the meeting between Jinping and Modi on the sidelines of the summit expected on Tuesday afternoon, which comes barely days after an end to the bitter 74-day standoff between the militaries of India and China
Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to hold a bilateral meeting on Tuesday, nearly a week after India and China announced resolution of the 73-day-long Dokalam standoff.
During his two day visit, Modi is also expected to hold a series of bilateral meetings including with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other BRICS leaders.
Xi Jinping said that as a cooperation platform with global influence, BRICS cooperation is more than about five countries.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Myanmar in 2014 to attend the ASEAN-India Summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive in Xiamen tomorrow. The BRICS summit brings together the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
PM Narendra Modi leaves for Xiamen tomorrow to attend the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS)summit on September 4.
A probable one-on-one between Modi and Xi will be a focal point, especially after the protracted military standoff between the armies of the two countries in Doklam.
The longest standoff between the armies of India and China were witnessed in 1987 at the Sumdorong Chu valley in Arunachal Pradesh.
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that he was not in a position to share timings and details of bilateral meetings the PM will have on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit.
China's military today said it will beef up the presence of troops and patrols to protect "every inch" of its territory in Dokalam but was evasive on the construction of the road which was stopped by Indian troops
A Modi-Xi meeting, if it happens, will follow the resolution of the over two-month military stand-off border row which had plunged ties between the two countries to a new low.
China has invited Egypt, Kenya, Tajikistan, Mexico and Thailand as guest countries for the upcoming BRICS summit but clarified that the invitation is not an attempt to expand the group under its 'BRICS Plus' approach
China and India have been engaged in a stand-off in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan tri-junction for the past three weeks after a People's Liberation Army construction party attempted to build a road.
Yesterday, China had said that Jinping will meet with Modi at Friday's G20 Summit in Hamburg at an informal leaders' meeting of the BRICS countries on the sidelines.
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As the eighth BRICS Summit reached its conclusion on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the leaders of the group of developing economies for a twofold increase in the size of intra-grouping exchange to
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