
Moscow: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will attend a luncheon meeting with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi In Moscow on Wednesday. Both of them are attending a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Yi is also set to meet the Russian Foreign Minister.
Jaishankar landed in Moscow on Tuesday for a 4 day SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meet. His visit comes days after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attended the SCO Defence Ministers’ Meet.
It is speculated that Jaishanakar and Yi are to discuss the current border tensions between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. On Monday he addressed the escalating territorial issue as ‘very serious’ and even hinted at worseing relations with China if common ground is not reached.