New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) A group of Tibetan activists protested here as the foreign ministers of India and China Thursday held talks to strengthen strategic partnership and firm up the agenda for the forthcoming visit of President Hu Jintao to India for the BRICS summit March-end.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna held delegation-level talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi. The two ministers reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral relationship and discussed issues that will figure in bilateral talks between the Chinese president and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the margins of the BRICS summit.
“The strategic partnership needs to be strengthened,” Krishna said after the talks and stressed that bilateral relations were progressing in a positive direction.
As the foreign ministers of India and China held talks, Tibetan activists protested and raised anti-China slogans. India has given an undertaking to China that it will not allow its soil to be used for anti-China activities.
India will host the summit of the leaders of the five emerging economies of BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in New Delhi March 29.
This will be the last visit of Hu to India before China goes in for a generational leadership succession expected in autumn this year. Hu last came to India in 2006.
