Produced some results on Indo-China border talks: Chinese leader

New Delhi: India and China today began crucial talks on the boundary question on a positive note with Chinese leader Dai Bingguo saying the two sides have “scaled much height” and “produced some results” on the framework of settlement of the issue. Speaking at a banquet hosted in his honour by National Security Adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon, Dai said Sino-Indian ties have made “substantial progress”, “can work miracles” together and hoped the two nations will never go to war again. [caption id=“attachment_184171” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Dai and Menon are discussing putting in place a mechanism for border management mooted by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to India in 2010. AFP Photo”] [/caption] Dai and Menon kicked off the two-day 15th meeting of the Special Representatives (SR) on the India-China boundary question which the NSA described as “useful”. “In the China-India boundary negotiations, although we have not yet arrived at the summit — that is we have not reached full agreement on the framework of settlement of the boundary question — but we have scaled much height and made much progress,” Dai said. “I think we can tell the people of both countries that we had not been lazy in this exercise and we have produced some results for our work,” he said without elaborating. Dai and Menon are discussing putting in place a mechanism for border management mooted by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to India in 2010. Former NSA Brajesh Mishra, during whose tenure the SR mechanism was launched in 2003, and former foreign secretary Shyam Saran were among those present at the banquet. The meeting of SRs was to be held in November last year but had to be postponed after China protested Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s participation in a religious function in the capital around the time of the talks. India had then rejected China’s demand for cancellation of the function leading to the postponement of the talks. PTI