New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. This meeting will take place in the Russian city of Kazan where both the leaders have arrived to participate in the BRICS summit. This meeting is going to take place when the foreign ministries of both the countries have informed that an agreement has been reached to resolve the dispute over patrolling on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after the intrusion of Chinese soldiers in the area of ​​​​Eastern Ladakh in April 2020.

There will be talks on the issue of LAC

On Monday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had said that India and China would reach an agreement and the situation before 2020 would be restored, which was confirmed by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. In this meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Jinping, apart from all the issues related to the LAC dispute, other aspects of bilateral relations will also be discussed.

What happened to the agreement between India and China?

In a press conference organized to give information about Modi's activities in Kazan on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Misri said, "I confirm that there will be a separate bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Jinping on October 23 during the BRICS summit." Along with this, Misri said, "The agreement reached a day earlier (Monday morning) regarding patrolling means that in the disputed areas that were left, patrolling (by Indian soldiers) and grazing of animals will be possible as before the year 2020.

This is also the meaning of what Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said a day earlier in New Delhi. The agreements made earlier regarding the LAC are different.' He also said that there are many aspects related to the said agreement about which information will be given later. It is quite possible that some more information will come out after the meeting of Prime Minister Modi and President Jinping.

This is the third meeting after the controversy

This will be the third meeting between Modi and Jinping since the dispute over the LAC in eastern Ladakh began. The two had a brief meeting at the G-20 meeting in Bali in 2022, about which the Ministry of External Affairs gave information much later. In the meeting during the BRICS summit in South Africa in 2023, both the leaders had talked about resolving the border dispute soon.

Met 18 times before the dispute

The meeting to be held in Kazan is important in the sense that the Foreign Ministry is giving information about it in advance. Before the LAC dispute started, Modi and Jinping had met 18 times. There were meetings of 22 other committees and co-committees on all aspects of bilateral relations between the two countries, which are currently closed. These may start after the Modi-Jinping meeting. After the LAC dispute, India had taken several steps against China. However, China is India's biggest trading partner.

China said- will work together with India

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Tuesday publicly acknowledged that an agreement has been reached between the two countries to resolve the four-year-old dispute on the LAC (in the eastern Ladakh region) with India. In a press conference, he said, 'The two countries were in diplomatic and military dialogue regarding the India-China border dispute. China has always insisted that a consensus has been reached between the two sides on the related issues. China will work together with India to implement these proposals.'