jennifer
01-15-2008, 04:33 AM
In a marked upswing, India-China relations moved to a higher and broader level with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Premier Wen Jiabao today declaring their commitment to more frequent and intensive high-level engagements.
Far from being held back, or down, by the contentious boundary issue, the two leaders agreed to move ahead, and rapidly, in directions that appeared nascent until recently.
The two sides agreeing to hold the second India-China Defence Dialogue and the second Joint Military Training Exercises in 2008 shows new resolve to pursue more robustly the strategic and military dimensions of Sino-Indian relations. Manmohan Singh and Wen pledged to promote cooperation in civil nuclear energy, “consistent with their respective international (http://www.addyoururl.org/index.php?search=international)commitments”; work together in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; support reform of the United Nations; and, together strive for closer cooperation in, and regional integration of, Asia...Read... (http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080115/main1.htm)
Far from being held back, or down, by the contentious boundary issue, the two leaders agreed to move ahead, and rapidly, in directions that appeared nascent until recently.
The two sides agreeing to hold the second India-China Defence Dialogue and the second Joint Military Training Exercises in 2008 shows new resolve to pursue more robustly the strategic and military dimensions of Sino-Indian relations. Manmohan Singh and Wen pledged to promote cooperation in civil nuclear energy, “consistent with their respective international (http://www.addyoururl.org/index.php?search=international)commitments”; work together in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; support reform of the United Nations; and, together strive for closer cooperation in, and regional integration of, Asia...Read... (http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080115/main1.htm)