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Indo-China talks: Cabinet oks agenda
NEW DELHI: A cabinet panel on Thursday cleared the agenda for the two-day India-China talks starting on Friday on resolving the vexed boundary issue between the two countries.
The cabinet committee on security (CCS) was also briefed on last week's successful test firing of the nuclear capable 3,000-km intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III, an official spokesman said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired the meeting that was attended among others by Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
India's National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will hold their two-day talks in New Delhi and Ooty.
The talks are expected to give a push to arriving at a framework agreement to resolve the decades-old boundary dispute that has shadowed the India-China ties all these years.
The two special representatives last met in New Delhi in January and decided to continue their talks based on guiding principles and political parameters for resolving the boundary dispute that were finalised during the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in 2005.
As they meet again after just three months, it has fuelled speculation that the two sides are trying hard to reach a viable border settlement that may be the highlight of Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing later this year.
Agni-III had soared aloft April 12 and buoyed by the success of the test, Indian scientists said it could be inducted into service in two to three years, even as they said its range could be extended to 5,000 km.
Agni-III "would be the stepping stone to build capability for a longer range of 5,000 km," M. Natarajan, head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the system, said on April 13.
NEW DELHI: A cabinet panel on Thursday cleared the agenda for the two-day India-China talks starting on Friday on resolving the vexed boundary issue between the two countries.
The cabinet committee on security (CCS) was also briefed on last week's successful test firing of the nuclear capable 3,000-km intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III, an official spokesman said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired the meeting that was attended among others by Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
India's National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will hold their two-day talks in New Delhi and Ooty.
The talks are expected to give a push to arriving at a framework agreement to resolve the decades-old boundary dispute that has shadowed the India-China ties all these years.
The two special representatives last met in New Delhi in January and decided to continue their talks based on guiding principles and political parameters for resolving the boundary dispute that were finalised during the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in 2005.
As they meet again after just three months, it has fuelled speculation that the two sides are trying hard to reach a viable border settlement that may be the highlight of Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing later this year.
Agni-III had soared aloft April 12 and buoyed by the success of the test, Indian scientists said it could be inducted into service in two to three years, even as they said its range could be extended to 5,000 km.
Agni-III "would be the stepping stone to build capability for a longer range of 5,000 km," M. Natarajan, head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the system, said on April 13.
