PM Modi to leave for China today for 'informal summit' with Xi

April 26, 2018 09:25

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for China today to attend an informal summit to be hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan city on April 27 and 28.

This informal discussion is going to take place for the first time after 1954.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday at the joint press conference with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj in Beijing said, "We will make sure that the informal summit (between PM Modi and Chinese President Jinping) will be a complete success and a milestone in China-India relations."

The informal summit is being seen as a move by the two countries to get their ties back on track following the Doklam stand-off last year, wherein troops from the two nations were engaged in an eyeball-to-eyeball standoff near Sikkim border between June to August.

The summit comes ahead of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Qingdao city in June.

No agreements will be signed between India and China and no customary joint press conference will be held during Modi's two-day visit. -- ANI

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