Sushma Swaraj says Modi to visit China in May, calls for '6-point template' for China ties ;

 

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on her first official visit to China.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who began a three-day visit to Beijing on Sunday, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely visit China in May - his first as PM.
Swaraj called for a new 'six-point template' to boost India's relations with China, detailing what officials said was a broad guideline that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had outlined to craft a new framework for ties.
Swaraj told reporters the main purpose of her visit was "to strengthen ties" and prepare the groundwork for the Prime Minister's visit.

 

 

Swaraj on Sunday met with members of the Indian community from China, who had travelled from Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai to meet with the External Affairs Minister. She urged the Indian diaspora to play a role in Modi's plans to revitalise India's economy and in the "Make in India" initiative, and noted there was "interest and excitement" in China on the steps being taken in India on the economic front following Modi's election.
Earlier on Sunday, Swaraj told a media forum that the Modi government would be more open to Chinese companies seeking to invest in India.

She also outlined a new 'six-point template' to take ties forward, calling for "an action-oriented approach, broad-based bilateral engagement, convergence on common regional and global interests, developing new areas of cooperation, expand strategic communication and fulfilling common aspirations to usher an 'Asian Century'"