Menon to meet Dai Bingguoon as India-China to discuss border dispute
New Delhi: National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and China’s chief negotiator Dai Bingguoon will meet on Friday on the sidelines of two-day BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) top security officials’ meeting from Thursday.
Menon and Dai would be meeting just over a month after their crucial informal boundary talks in China during which they reached “common understanding” on the negotiations over framework for a boundary settlement.
Asked about the agenda for the meeting on Friday, Menon said, “Let the meeting take place.” Meeting is also significant as it will be Dai’s last visit here as Special Representative and State Counsellor before his retirement in March.
He is the longest serving negotiator of China, who held talks with Menon’s predecessors including Brajesh Mishra, J N Dixit and M K Narayanan.
Menon is also holding bilateral meetings with other delegation heads of the BRICS countries. Dai also called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
