New Delhi: The Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar is likely to hold a bilateral meeting on Wednesday with Mitra China Wang Yi on the sidelines of the SCO Foreign Minister in Dushanbe, a meeting that will be supervised by ongoing military specifications off between the two countries in the Ladakh sector , Official sources say Jaishankar is expected to emphasize the need for initial release, complete and sincere in LAC in East Ladakh for improvement in a bond that has been damaged since April last year.
Both of them will also talk about the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan where Taliban rebels threaten to sweep the country when the US is interesting in a hurry.
Jaisankar and Wang will also participate on Wednesday at the Group meeting contact SCO Afghanistan.
Jaisankar and Wang have twice talked this year – in February and April.
They discussed the status of the release of the LAC and the implementation of the Moscow agreement and also agreed to build a hotline for timely communication.
India has repeatedly emphasized on the need to apply the Moscow agreement that refers to the consensus of 5 points Jaisankar and Wang arrived last year, again on the SCO meeting margin, to resolve the border situation.
While Russia has refrained from making offers to mediate between India and China, it has repeatedly said the SCO platform must be used by countries to resolve differences between them.
India and China completed the release in the Pangong Tso area in February this year but there was little progress in the remaining friction points.
While China continues to blame the accumulation of alleged Indian forces for LAC’s plus-off, India says Beijing’s violations of the bilateral agreement are reasons for border disputes.
Jaisankar will also face to face in Dushanbe with his Pakistani colleague Shah Mahmood Qureshi but the source said there was no proposal for bilateral meetings between them.