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India, China need to project 'positive posture'

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Posted online: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST

New Delhi, January 9:
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing, China said the two countries needed to project a ‘positive posture’ in their relationship which had ‘international dimension’ and bearing on world peace and stability.

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan said his country wanted Singh's maiden visit to be successful and expressed confidence that it will give a ‘push to the strategic and cooperative partnership’ between the two countries to a ‘new level’.

Singh, who will undertake a three-day visit to China from Sunday, will have wide-ranging talks with his counterpart Wen Jiabao and meet President Hu Jintao covering political, economic and strategic relationship.

"China-India relations assume international dimension and whenever there is interaction between the two countries, the world watches closely," Zhang said.

"We have to project a positive posture to the outside world," he said, adding the two countries needed to demonstrate that they are ‘committed to cooperate and work together for the betterment of the two countries and for peace and stability of the region and the world’.

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India, China need to project 'positive posture' Agencies Posted online: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST New Delhi, January 9: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Beijing, China said the two countries needed to project a ‘positive posture’ in their relationship which had ‘international dimension’ and bearing on world peace and stability. Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan said his country wanted Singh's maiden visit to be successful and expressed confidence that it will give a ‘push to the strategic and cooperative partnership’ between the two countries to a ‘new level’. Singh, who will undertake a three-day visit to China from Sunday, will have wide-ranging talks with his counterpart Wen Jiabao and meet President Hu Jintao covering political, economic and strategic relationship. "China-India relations assume international dimension and whenever there is interaction between the two countries, the world watches closely," Zhang said. "We have to project a positive posture to the outside world," he said, adding the two countries needed to demonstrate that they are ‘committed to cooperate and work together for the betterment of the two countries and for peace and stability of the region and the world’.