Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet on the sidelines of the ongoing BRICS Summit in Russia on Wednesday, foreign secretary Vikram Misri said. The meeting of the two leaders come in the wake of the two sides reaching an agreement on patrolling along their disputed border.
The agreement on patrolling arrangements on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), announced by India on Monday, had raised the possibility of the first formal interaction between Modi and Xi since their brief encounter on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali in November 2022.
“I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting held between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping tomorrow (Wednesday)on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit,” Misri said at a press briefing.
Both the leaders are currently in Russia’s Kazan, where Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa are also attending the summit.
