China foreign minister Wang Yi to meet India counterpart today

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi (File image)

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will meet India's external affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar in New Delhi on March 25, after arriving in the national capital unannounced yesterday.

Wang will hold talks with Jaishankar before noon, and is set to fly to Nepal later in the day. He is also likely to meet National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval.

This is the first such visit of a senior Chinese leader in the last two years since the Galwan Valley clash soured ties between the two countries.

Wang was in Afghanistan on Thursday after this three-day visit to Pakistan. The visit by the minister comes at a time when India had rejected his remarks on Kashmir at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Islamabad.

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India had also said that other countries, including China, have no locus standi to comment on India's internal affairs.

After the Galwan Valley clash, both countries have held several rounds of border talks to resolve the standoff. India has called for complete disengagement in eastern Ladakh at all friction points.

The two countries today are expected to talk about the border tension as well as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

(With agency inputs)