PM Modi, President Xi Jinping hold structured bilateral talks
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Kazan: On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi held their first structured meeting in five years on Wednesday.
The meeting came two days after India and China achieved a significant step to settle the more than four-year standoff by solidifying an agreement on military patrols along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
In November 2022, Modi and Xi exchanged pleasantries and held a brief conversation at a dinner hosted by the Indonesian President for the G20 leaders.
In August last year too, the Indian prime minister and the Chinese president held a brief and informal conversation in Johannesburg on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) summit.
The two leaders last held a structured meeting during their second informal summit in Mamallapuram in October 2019.
The eastern Ladakh border row erupted in May 2020.
With PTI inputs