By Xinhua
Singapore : China will in September finalize issues concerning a hotline with the US for handling emergency situations, a senior Chinese military official told the Sixth Asia Security Summit here Saturday.
Zhang Qinsheng, deputy chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China, made the remarks at the second plenary session titled "India and China: building international stability".
He said the technical issues had been settled and he would attend a meeting in Washington in September to "finalize" the agreement.
The three-day Shangri-La Dialogue, organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, opened Friday. Attending it are defence ministers and officials from 26 countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe to address major regional security issues and defence cooperation.