Disputes shouldn't affect peace at border: PM to Xi

As part of their first bilateral meeting in nearly five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday directed officials to take forward talks on resolving the ongoing border dispute in Ladakh.

- SUBHAYAN CHAKRABORTY

Modi also said that differences between the two sides should not be allowed to disturb peace along the border.

Both leaders stressed that with maturity and wisdom, and by showing mutual respect for each other's sensitivities, interests, concerns and aspirations, the two countries can have a peaceful, stable, and beneficial bilateral relationship, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said at a briefing in Kazan (Russia), after the meeting.

"Both leaders were of the view that stable relations between India and China, the two largest nations on earth, will have a positive impact on regional and global peace," Misri said.