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04-12-2005, 04:07 PM
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/13/254.html
NEW DELHI, India -- China's Prime Minister wound up a visit to India on Tuesday, having made progress on a border dispute and on boosting trade and energy cooperation. He vowed to make the world's fastest growing economies partners rather than rivals.
"India, China are brothers," China's Wen Jiabao told reporters on what he described as a historic visit. "We have taken this relationship to a new level."
Wen signed an agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday on the "guiding principles" to resolve a decades-old dispute over their 3,500- kilometer Himalayan border, which brought the two sides to war in 1962.
That would mean China relinquishing its claim to 90,000 square kilometers of territory in India's northeast but retaining control of Aksai Chin, a icy and uninhabited slice of land on the Tibetan plateau that Beijing seized from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1962.
But as the nuclear powers mark 55 years of diplomatic ties this year, analysts said there was still a long way to go in the border dispute, as well as in building trust between the huge communist state and the world's largest democracy.
The two powers, whose demand for energy has stretched global supply, also agreed to cooperate in the search for new supplies to avoid a bidding war that would drive prices up.
But another source of potential difficulty remains. While China appeared to support India's bid for a UN Security Council seat, its endorsement was not as strong as India was seeking, officials said, and did not specifically support a veto right for New Delhi.
"We fully understand and support India's aspiration to play an even bigger role in international affairs, including in the United Nations," Wen said.
NEW DELHI, India -- China's Prime Minister wound up a visit to India on Tuesday, having made progress on a border dispute and on boosting trade and energy cooperation. He vowed to make the world's fastest growing economies partners rather than rivals.
"India, China are brothers," China's Wen Jiabao told reporters on what he described as a historic visit. "We have taken this relationship to a new level."
Wen signed an agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday on the "guiding principles" to resolve a decades-old dispute over their 3,500- kilometer Himalayan border, which brought the two sides to war in 1962.
That would mean China relinquishing its claim to 90,000 square kilometers of territory in India's northeast but retaining control of Aksai Chin, a icy and uninhabited slice of land on the Tibetan plateau that Beijing seized from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1962.
But as the nuclear powers mark 55 years of diplomatic ties this year, analysts said there was still a long way to go in the border dispute, as well as in building trust between the huge communist state and the world's largest democracy.
The two powers, whose demand for energy has stretched global supply, also agreed to cooperate in the search for new supplies to avoid a bidding war that would drive prices up.
But another source of potential difficulty remains. While China appeared to support India's bid for a UN Security Council seat, its endorsement was not as strong as India was seeking, officials said, and did not specifically support a veto right for New Delhi.
"We fully understand and support India's aspiration to play an even bigger role in international affairs, including in the United Nations," Wen said.