Khurshid to visit China on May 9 - Times of India

NEW DELHI: A cautious government on Thursday announced that foreign minister Salman Khurshid will indeed be travelling to Beijing on May 9, as India prepares to receive Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on May 20. The visit will happen despite the ongoing stand-off in the Daulet Beg Oldie (DBO) sector in Ladakh where Chinese and Indian soldiers are locked in a face-off with little hope of resolving the issue through local commanders. TOI had reported on Thursday that the government had decided at the highest level that Khurshid must visit Beijing in the second week of May to lay the groundwork for Premier Li's visit. Government sources said that even if the present impasse continues, it will have no impact on Khurshid's visit. Ever since the incident was first reported, the government has attributed it to differing perceptions of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Both sides have been in touch on this through the working mechanism for consultation and coordination on India-China border affairs which is headed by joint secretary (East Asia) in the MEA, Gautam Bambawale, and the director general border affairs of the Chinese foreign ministry. Confirming his visit on May 9, Khurshid said on Thursday that the working mechanism was enough to handle the issue. "Let us allow that mechanism to find its solution and repeatedly it has found. And we have good reasons to believe that it should be able to do it again," he said. In an exclusive interview to TOI on Wednesday, Khurshi d had spelt out government's priority saying that the incident should not be allowed to turn into a dampener for the visit by Li who has chosen India as his first destination abroad after taking over as premier. This was even as he described the incident as adverse to India's interests. Khurshid added that one can't ignore the fact that there are varying perceptions of the LAC. "We shouldn't destroy years of investment, years of contribution that we have made to this relationship because somewhere some little thing goes wrong. One little spot is acne which cannot force you to say that this is not a beautiful face," he said. Khurshid was talking on the sidelines of a function at FICCI. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGbVzAqEiktymepeiCPBTp-48d88Q&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Khurshid-to-visit-China-on-May-9/articleshow/19733675.cms

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