Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov / POOL / AFP)
BRICS Summit 2024 live updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold their first bilateral talks in 5 years on the sidelines of BRICS summit today, in Russia’s Kazan. This comes after both India and China took significant steps to ease the border dispute between the neighbouring countries.…Read More
The meeting between PM Modi and Xi Jinping marks the first formal interaction between the two leaders in five years and follows the two countries reaching an agreement on resuming regular patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
Issuing a statement on the same, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Tuesday, “I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit.”
The last time Modi interacted with Jinping was in 2019 in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, just a few months before the military standoff at Galwan in June 2020 which led to multiple casualties.