
Describing Sino-Indian border row as a 8216;complex issue8217;, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said it cannot be resolved overnight and that 8216;new progress8217; would be made in the negotiations as long as both countries showed sincerity and 8216;mutual accommodation8217;.
8220;It is no easy task to resolve such a complex issue left from the past and we cannot expect that the issue will be resolved overnight,8221; Wen said in his customary press conference at the conclusion of the session of China8217;s Parliament of the National People8217;s Congress NPC.
8220;This being said, I would like to say that as long as China and India have sincerity and as long as we approach this issue on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual accommodation, new progress will be made in the negotiations,8221; said Wen, elected for a second five-year term by the NPC.
Wen noted that political parameters and principles had been established in the talks between the two countries and that negotiations had been conducted in several rounds.
India and China had reached the agreement on Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the settlement of the festering boundary row between the two countries in April 2005
Special Representatives of the two countries have held 11 rounds of talks so far.
In the 8216;Shared Vision for the 21st Century8217; document signed between India and China during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in January this year, both sides had said that the representatives shall complete at an early date the task of arriving at an agreed framework of settlement on the basis of the 2005 Agreement.