From 23-24 March the 18th round of meetings between the Indian and Chinese Special Representatives on the Border Question will take place in New Delhi. The Chinese special representative is Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and the Indian special representative is National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
This will be the first meeting between the special representatives since the new Indian government assumed power in May 2014, and the first since NSA Ajit Doval was appointed as special representative.
The mandate of the Special Representatives is to find a resolution to the border dispute between India and China. The negotiations are divided into three stages. Currently both countries are in stage-two which requires negotiating a framework to resolve the disputes in the three sectors—western, middle and eastern.
The meeting is also expected to lay the groundwork ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China which is expected to take play in May 2015.