Chinese and Indian leaders have agreed to strengthen communication and cooperation to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian at a regular press conference in Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday in Russian city of Kazan.
"President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed during the meeting that this meeting was constructive and was of great significance. China and India should view and handle China-India relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, not let specific differences affect the overall situation of bilateral relations, and make positive contributions to regional and world peace and prosperity and promoting multipolarity of the world," said Lin Jian, the spokesman, at a press conference in Beijing.
"The two sides have agreed to strengthen communication and cooperation, enhance strategic mutual trust, and have agreed that the two countries' foreign ministers and officials at all levels will conduct dialogues to push the two countries' relations back on the track of stable development as soon as possible, give full play to the role of the meeting mechanism of the special representatives on the border issue between the two countries, jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas, seek fair and reasonable solutions, strengthen communication and cooperation on multilateral occasions, and safeguard the common interests of developing countries," he said.