China will firmly support the joint efforts with India to finalize a framework to resolve the lingering border dispute if it is "fair, rational, and acceptable to both sides", Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said yesterday.
Yang's promise came during a 50-minute meeting with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in the capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
"China will make joint efforts with India under relevant political guiding principles and hopes the two countries understand each other, make mutual concessions and adjustments to strive for an early agreement" on the framework, Yang said.
The two countries have set up a working group to formulate a framework to resolve the boundary issue, Mukherjee told reporters. "Let us wait for the recommendations of the working group."
Mukherjee described as "successful" the 11th round of talks between the special representatives of China and India in Beijing from September 24 to 26.
Mukherjee was here for the third trilateral meeting of foreign ministers of India, China and Russia on Wednesday.
During their talks, the foreign ministers of China and India reviewed the development of bilateral ties, and agreed that enhanced cooperation was not only conducive to regional peace and stability, but also to world peace and prosperity.
Source: China Daily
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