BEIJING - China and India on Tuesday ended two days of talks aimed at settling their border disputes, but there was no immediate sign of progress as the two sides agreed to meet again in New Delhi. Indiaâs special representative, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo led the sixth round of bilateral talks on the boundary issues.Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said the two sides agreed to hold a seventh round of talks in New Delhi on a date to be decided later, but he did not say whether the two sides made any progress in Beijing. âThe atmosphere for resolving the border issue has improved,â Qin told reporters. âThe two sides have the sincerity to seek a solution to this issue.â
But one state media report quoted an unidentified analyst as saying the border talks were in their âtoughest phaseâ.
The governmentâs official Xinhua news agency quoted Jia Qinglin, a leading member of the politburo of Chinaâs Communist Party, as telling Narayanan that China hoped the border disputes would be âsettled in fair and reasonable way at an early dateâ.