China skipped a confidential G20 meeting held in Arunachal Pradesh sources noted. The meeting was held in Itanagar, the capital city of Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern state that has been a point of contention between India and China for quite some time.
The weekend meeting, which was attended by over 50 delegates, was declared confidential and media coverage was not permitted. It was amongst the multiple events planned across 50 major cities ahead of the G20 summit in Delhi in September.
The meeting was organised by the Science and Technology department with the theme ‘Research innovation initiative, gathering’. The delegates who attended the meeting also visited Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly and a Buddhist monastery and tasted tasted local cuisines in Itanagar, officials said.
Last week, China has said that the border dispute with India is a bilateral issue and that foreign interference will not help solve them.
“Border issue between India and China is a bilateral issue, both countries have the wisdom to resolve the issue, we can handle that, we don’t invite any other, especially from other regions to interfere in this bilateral dispute, and whether foreign interference is helpful to resolve the issue, anytime you see there is interference in bilateral dispute, on the contrary, it will not help the two sides to solve the problems,” Chinese Charge d’Affaires Ma Jia was quoted by ANI.
