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Sushma Swaraj with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. PTI

Simran Sodhi

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 13

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today to discuss issues of mutual interest and to prepare for Modi’s China visit in September.India at the meetings, it is learnt, raised the issue of China blocking its Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership and also of China preventing Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar from being designated a terrorist by the United Nations. Sources in the government maintained that China did not bring up the issue of the South China Sea.Sources said Wang met Modi for about 20 minutes and briefed the PM on the G20 Summit to be held in China. Wang and Swaraj held three-hour discussions, including over lunch, where sources said a discussion was held on India’s NSG membership. It is learnt that India has offered to discuss any technical issues China may have. “It was agreed that the Directors-General of Disarmament of the two countries would meet soon.”India raised the issue of China’s technical hold on listing of Masood Azhar in the UN Security Council. Swaraj also expressed concern over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Sources said the two sides decided to set up a new mechanism at the level of the foreign secretaries to discuss ties.Wang arrived in the capital after his stopover in Goa where he visited the premises where the BRICS Summit will be hosted by India in October. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be among the world leaders who will attend the Summit and Wang’s visit to Goa was to oversee the preparations. Sources maintain it’s unusual for a foreign minister to oversee Summit’s preparations, but the Ministry of External Affairs shrugged it off as normal.Meanwhile, a commentary in Global Times made two points: India has “wrongly” blamed China for blocking its entry into NSG and that the door to NSG entry for India “is not tightly closed”.

Talks only on relevant issues: India to Pak

New Delhi: A day after Pakistan said it wanted to have an exclusive dialogue with India on Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said it was ready for talks but only on “contemporary and relevant” issues, including stoppage of Pakistan’s support to cross-border terrorism and infiltration of terrorists like Bahadur Ali”. PTI