India-China border talks on February 10-11

With India and China holding the 17th round of border talks on February 10-11, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon will be hosting Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi. Menon, who succeeded M K Narayanan as the country’s negotiator in the talks, will be accompanied by senior officials from the Ministries of External Affairs and Defence.

The Special Representatives will hold their discussions on a framework for a resolution of the boundary question, which constitutes the second step of a three-stage process.

In the last round, they had also discussed the maintenance of peace and tranquility on the India-China border, including possible additional confidence building measures, ways and means of strengthening existing mechanisms for consultation and coordination on border affairs and methodology to enhance the efficiency of communications between the two sides.