The meeting was held this morning on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit at the Hangzhou West Lake State Guest House.
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“PM closed his intervention at the G20 by paying tribute to President Obama for his leadership in G20”, External Affair Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said of the meet.
He said that the G-20 member nations need to act to eliminate safe havens for economic offenders and track down and unconditionally extradite money launderers.
Leading from the chair, Modi in his hard-hitting address to the BRICS Leaders Meeting+ here said “terrorists in South Asia, or anywhere for that matter, do not own banks or weapons factories”.
He said, in order to promote positive convergences, negative perception needs to be prevented. “For this the specific actions by both countries would play the major role”, the spokesman paraphrased the Prime Minister as saying.
In particular, Modi highlighted that “we have succeeded in maintaining peace and tranquility on the border”, he added.
In his address at the BRICS Leaders meeting, Modi said “We, as BRICS, are an influential voice in worldwide discourse”.
On his part, Xi said China is willing to work with India to maintain their “hard-won sound” ties and further boost bilateral cooperation.
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Prime Minister Modi earlier in the day met Chinese President Xi Jinping amid differences between the two countries over several issues, including the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which runs through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
“This was a meeting at summit level between the two”.
Citing that India has not signed the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT), China had opposed its bid to join the elite 48-member bloc during NSG’s meeting in Seoul in June.
“We must also intensify our coordination in regional and multilateral fora”, he told Modi, who reiterated that India always stood as a friend with Vietnam throughout history. The India-China partnership is important not only for the two countries but for the entire region and the world.
But the reference was clearly aimed at Islamabad – a close ally of China.
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The Prime Minister said areas such as cyber security and information technology would benefit from the creation of a task force and help the two sides solve future problems. “We welcome you all to Goa next month”, Modi said while concluding his brief address.
