
India, China seek to resolve boundary dispute
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Saturday, April 9, 2005 (New Delhi):
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in India today for a four day visit.
While his first stop is Bangalore, his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi is likely to take centre stage next week.
During the parleys, a breakthrough is expected on the boundary issue, which has been the cause of a rift for more than 40 years.
Highly placed government sources have told NDTV that the two leaders will announce a set of guiding principles that will become the basis for the resolution of the dispute.
Occupying territory
Special political envoys on the boundary issue appointed during former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit have already met four times.
Since the 1962 war in the west, India has accused China of occupying over 40,000 square kilometers of Jammu and Kashmir specially Aksai Chin ceded to it by Pakistan.
In the east, China claims India possesses 90,000 sq km of its territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.
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