Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Visits Beijing, India's Second Trip In Six Weeks

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will travel to Beijing ona two-day trip beginning Sunday, in the second such highprofile visit from India to China in less than one-and-ahalf months.

Last week, National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval travelled to Beijing and held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi under the framework of Special Representatives (SR) dialogue on the boundary dispute.

“Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will be visiting Beijing on January and 27 for a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister mechanism between India and China." the Ministrv of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.

“The resumption of this bilateral mechanism flows from the agreement at the leadership level to discuss the next steps for India-China relations, including in the political, economic, and people-to-people domains,” it said in a brief statement.

The decision to revive the SR dialogue mechanism and other such formats was taken at a meeting between Modi and Xi in Kazan on October 23. Last week, Jaishankar said the India-China relationship is trying to disentangle itself from the complications arising from the post2020 border situation.