Another opportunity is likely to present itself when defence minister A.K. Antony visits Singapore for The Shangri-La Dialogue. Defence ministers and senior officials from India, China and 21 other countries — including the United Kingdom and the United States — are expected to participate in the seventh International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit, or The Shangri-La Dialogue, which will be held on May 30 and June 1.
08 May 2008: Howrah News Service
By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, May 8: India will renew contacts with China when minister of external affairs Pranab Mukherjee travels next week to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for the India-Russia-China trilateral foreign ministers meeting.
The trilateral meeting will be held from May 14 to 16. Foreign minister of Brazil, Celso Amorim will join the talks also to make it the first foreign ministerial-level talks among the four BRIC countries. China hosted the last trilateral meeting at Harbin in 2007.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday told a press conference in Beijing that Mr Yang Jiechi would hold bilateral talks with the other foreign ministers on the sidelines of the trilateral meeting.
Mr Mukherjee’s talks with his Chinese counterpart will come after foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon’s visit to China in the month of April for a meeting with officials from China, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil ahead of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan in July.
Another opportunity is likely to present itself when defence minister A.K. Antony visits Singapore for The Shangri-La Dialogue. Defence ministers and senior officials from India, China and 21 other countries — including the United Kingdom and the United States — are expected to participate in the seventh International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit, or The Shangri-La Dialogue, which will be held on May 30 and June 1.
The trilateral meeting will also be the first time that Mr Mukherjee will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov after Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russia’s new President.
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