Asia: China to hold its Central Asian meet ahead of India summit – Times of India

New Delhi: First India-central ahead Asia summit, China will virtually host its Summit Five Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – on Tuesday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two sides.
President Xi Jinping The summit will be chaired, the Chinese foreign ministry said, adding that it will be China’s first major diplomatic action “facing Central Asia” this year and the first heads of state meeting between China and the five countries. Significantly, this comes just two days before India’s first scheduled summit with the same countries on January 27.
The government had last week said that the first India-Central Asia summit was a reflection of India’s growing engagement with Central Asian countries. India had also proposed the visit of Central Asian leaders for the summit meeting with the PM Narendra Modi And also to participate in the Republic Day Parade as the Chief Guest.
The visit could not take place due to a rise in Covid-19 cases in Delhi and India announced last week that Modi would chair the summit on January 27.
Beijing said the China summit would be an opportunity for all sides to “take stock of the achievements and experience of China-Central Asia relations” and to coordinate and plan for future bilateral cooperation “across the board at a new historic starting point”. was very important.
“During the summit, President Xi and the heads of state of the five Central Asian countries will make remarks to jointly review the visits made by China and the five Central Asian countries in enhancing their relations, take a look at the major achievements in bilateral cooperation, The successful experiences in a nutshell and paint a blueprint for their collaboration going forward,” said the spokesperson.

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