On a day when India and China signed a record 24 agreements worth $10 billion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a firm stand and said that China should reconsider its approach to some issues that hold the two countries back from realising full potential of the partnership. While claiming that the meeting was a success, he stressed on the importance of clarification on 4,057 km long Line of Actual Control.
"I stressed on the need for China to re-consider its approach to some issues that hold us back from realising full potential of our partnership," he said.
He also said that he sought "tangible progress" on issues relating to visa policy and trans-border rivers.
Speaking at a joint press conference, Modi said that the two countries have a historic responsibility to turn the relationship into a source of strength for each other and a force of good for the world.
"The re-emergence of India and China and their relationship will have a profound impact on the two countries and the course of this century. Our relationship has been complex in recent decades. I believe that my discussions with President Xi and Premier Li have advanced our relationship in that direction," he said.
He also said bilateral cooperation was a very important part of the discussion. "We have set a high level of ambition for our economic partnership. We see enormous bilateral opportunities and many similar challenges, like urbanization," he said.
Both the countries accepted that terrorism is a shared threat. "Instability in West Asia matters to both of us. Peace and progress in Afghanistan benefits us both. I am confident that our international partnership will deepen," he said.
China's Premier Li Keqiang also said that both countries need to strengthen mutual political trust so that together they can build a fairer and more reasonable international order.
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