New Delhi responded by taking up the matter with Beijing and objecting to Sun’s remarks. The air was finally cleared to some extent when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Hu during their bilateral meeting that there can be uprooting of settled population in Tawang or the entire state. The Chinese President, for his part, agreed to define an early settlement to the issue as a “strategic objective” and hoped it would not impact progress in other areas of cooperation.
Singh met Wen on January 14, just three days ahead of the SR-level talks, on the margins of the ASEAN meet at Cebu where the matter was discussed again.
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