By NNN-PTI
Beijing : As India and China continued their in-camera negotiations on the vexed boundary issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed confidence that the two neighbours can find a “mutually satisfactory” solution to the border dispute.
The boundary between the two countries is peaceful, Singh said addressing scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the premier think-tank of China.
“We are both determined to keep it so while our Special Representatives seek a settlement of the boundary question.”
In April, 2005 during the visit of Premier Wen Jiabao to India, the two governments agreed on a set of Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the settlement of the boundary question, Singh recalled.
“We are confident that those Principles will guide us to a mutually satisfactory solution of this issue. We have also agreed to set up a mechanism to look at trans-boundary rivers, and will make a success of its work.”
He said India was satisfied with the results so far and were convinced that the potential for India-China relations was great and would be realised.
The Special Representatives of the two countries, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, are expected to take forward the dialogue process during informal negotiations here.