PM Modi to visit China for BRICS summit

“At the invitation of the President of People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Xiamen in China’s Fujian province during September 3-5, 2017 to attend the 9th BRICS Summit,” an External Affairs Ministry statement said.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI Photo)

India Tuesday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China’s Xiamen to attend the BRICS summit from September 3 to 5. “At the invitation of the President of People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Xiamen in China’s Fujian province during September 3-5, 2017 to attend the 9th BRICS Summit,” an External Affairs Ministry statement said.

The announcement coincided with Bhutan’s confirmation that both India and China had withdrawn their troops from Doklam. It underlined the importance of maintaining “status quo”, something Delhi had accused Beijing of changing “unilaterally”.

China remained non-committal on its construction plans in Doklam. “We will make an overall assessment of the weather conditions and all related factors, and according to the actual circumstances, complete construction plans for the Dong Lang (Doklam) area,” Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying as telling a daily news briefing.

Separately, Modi will travel to Myanmar on September 5 for a two-day trip — his first visit to the country. “During the visit, Prime Minister will hold discussions with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on matters of mutual interest and also call on President U Htin Kyaw. Apart from his engagements in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw, he will visit Yangon and Bagan,” the ministry said.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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