Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang to attend G20 FMs’ meet in India

Beijing, February 28

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will travel to India this week to take part in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting on March 2, the Foreign Ministry announced here on Tuesday.

Qin’s visit to India will be the first by the Chinese Foreign Minister after his predecessor Wang Yi’s visit to New Delhi in 2019 to attend the Special Representatives’ dialogue on the border mechanism. 

Wang and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval were the Special Representatives.     

At the invitation of his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar, Qin will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi on March 2, the announcement here said.

Relations between the two countries are virtually frozen ever since the eastern Ladakh military standoff in May 2020.

The two countries have held 17 high-level military commanders’ talks to resolve the standoff.

India has been maintaining that its ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas.

India assumed the Presidency of the G20 on December 1 last year.