Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who was suddenly visiting India, had offered to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however, it was refused by the Prime Minister’s Office. India has told Chinese officials that the prime minister is busy on Friday as he has to go to Lucknow to attend the swearing-in ceremony of CM Yogi Adityanath.
According to the Indian Express, China had proposed to meet PM Modi during the visit of its Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India, but South Block declined it. The Chinese Foreign Minister came to India after almost two years. His visit was not pre-planned. The Chinese Foreign Minister reached Delhi late Thursday at 7.45 pm and left at around 3 pm on Friday.
According to sources, China invited NSA Ajit Doval to visit China as a special representative. In this regard, sources said that the NSA gave a positive response and said that after the current issue is resolved, he can visit China.
However, China did not invite India for the meeting on the Afghanistan issue, which is being convened in Beijing. “No, they have not invited us,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday. Talking to the media after this meeting, the Foreign Minister of India had told that he has told the Chinese Foreign Minister that relations between the two countries cannot remain normal in the atmosphere of tension and heavy military presence in the border area.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had told that he has also lodged a protest against India on Wang Yi’s statement regarding Jammu and Kashmir. Let us tell you that in the conference of Organization of Islamic Cooperation of Islamic countries in Pakistan, China had said that ‘is with Muslim countries on the issue of Kashmir’. India has expressed its opposition to this statement of China.