Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, January 30, 2003
Indian DM: China, India not Threat to Each Other
Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes Wednesday said Beijing and New Delhi were not a threat to each other and that the time had come to "rearrange" mutual ties keeping in view the ground realities.
Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes Wednesday said Beijing and New Delhi were not a threat to each other and that the time had come to "rearrange" mutual ties keeping in view the ground realities.
Addressing the concluding session of the three-day seminar on Asian Security and China, organized by the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis, he said that the two countries were working on the complex boundary issue in a "mature and Asian civilization manner."
He said China and India had now acquired a certain degree of consensual mutuality on the vexed border problem.
"We have our differences, but we are working on them -- though the pace has been referred to as glacial," the Defense Minister added.