The Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar travels to China to attend the Foreign Ministers’ meeting in the Shanghai organization for cooperation (SCO) in the Chinese city of Tianjin next week, the official announcement in Beijing said on Saturday (July 12, 2025).
The meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of SCO will take place in Tianjin 15 July, a statement spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing on Saturday (July 12, 2025).
In addition to participating in the SCO meeting, Mr. Jaishankar also visits China, the spokesman said without specifying it.
At the invitation of a member of the Political Office of the Communist Party of China and Foreign Minister Wang YI, Foreign Ministers of other Member States of SCO and head of the permanent block bodies, they will attend a meeting.
Ministers will exchange opinions on the cooperation of SCO in various fields and main international and regional issues, he said.
SCO includes 10 Member States – China, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus.
There are a number of problems between the two countries, including the current normalization process between the two countries, in interviews.
Previously, the news stated that Mr. Jaishankar would visit Beijing 13 July for interviews with Mr. Wang.
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Mr. Jaishankar’s visit is a follow -up to the recent visits of the Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh and the National Security Adviser Ajit Doval to China.
It would be the first visit to Mr. Jaishankar in China after the ties between the two countries came under strict tension after a military distance to 2020 along the real inspection line (LAC) in the eastern Ladak.
This month, Mr. Wang can also visit India to organize a new round of interviews with NSA Doval in the Dialogue Special Representatives (SR) about the border dispute.
Mr. Wang and Mr. Doval are a designated SRS mechanism of borders.
Both countries organized 23 rounds of interviews within the SRS mechanism to solve a worrying border dispute that covered 3,488 km, but without success.
Last month, Minister of Defense Singh traveled to the Chinese port city of Qingdao to participate in the SCO defense conference.
China is the current Chairman of the SCO and organizes meetings of the group in this capacity.
During his interviews with the Chinese Defense Minister Gen Dong Jun 26.
Mr. Singh and Mr. Dong conducted bilateral conversations on the sidelines Conclave of SCO, focusing on maintaining peace and calm along the line of real control (LAC).
Mr. Singh also emphasized the need to create “good neighboring conditions” to achieve the best mutual benefits, and called on “taking action on Earth” to bridge the “trust” deficit resulting from leaving Eastern Ladakh by 2020, according to Indian deduction at the 27th June meeting.
In responding to the statement of Mr. Singh, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Mao Ning said that the border question is complicated and it takes time to settle it ”.
The military distance between China and India in the eastern Ladak began in May 2020 and the deadly clash in the Galwan valley in June of the same year led to serious pressure in the ties between two neighbors.
Fame-off ended effectively after completion of the release process from the last two Tybání points of Demchoku and Depsang on the basis of an agreement completed on October 21st.
China and India are currently in the process of normalizing relationships.
The decision to revive the SR mechanism and other such dialogue formats was adopted at a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia in Kazan 23 October.
The Modi-Xi meeting came two days after India and China set fire to a disconnection agreement for Depsang and Demchok.
In the last few months of India and China, they have launched a number of measures to repair bilateral links.
Recently, both sides have restored Kailash Manasarovar Yatra after a gap for almost five years.
Published – July 12, 2025 05:09
