By KUNA
New Delhi : India Wednesday said that its relations with China were peaceful and that it would ensure that the Olympic flames passes through India safely.
“Apart from a very brief period in the history of relations between the two countries, relations between India and China have generally been peaceful,” India’s National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said while delivering a lecture on “Managing India’s National Security Building a Consensus for the 21st Century”, here.
“The Indian government will make all arrangements to ensure that the Olympic flame passes through India safely. We have taken precaution on that,” Narayanan said.
On the Sino-Indian boundary dispute, he said there have been reports of incursions by China across the disputed sections of the border and that the two countries were working to resolve it.
“Regarding the border, for the very first time there are now a set of guiding principles and political parameters for the resolution of the dispute, ” Narayanan said.
“The simultaneous and peaceful rise of India and China is truly an unique phenomenon,” he said.
“While with China, we confront many challenges than threats, the situation is reverse in the case of Pakistan … What we really need is a broad national consensus on whether China is a threat or a neighbour we can go along with,” the National Security Aadvisor said.