Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in a deal with agreed terms that to undertake a joint India-China economic project in Afghanistan at their first informal summit here, official sources reported.
The understanding was reached between the two leaders during the two-day informal summit which concluded today, they said. According to the agreed terms understanding, officials of both sides will identify the project in following up discussions and work out modalities.
This will be a first such project in the war-torn country where China while attempting to expand its influence has tacitly backed Pakistan, which has been accused by Afghanistan and the US of backing the Taliban and its most violent attacks in the country destabilizing any attempts to restore peace.
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China for the first time held a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan in December last in Beijing to narrow down the differences between the two countries.
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