China and India held the ‘24th Meeting of the Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question’ in New Delhi local time on the 19th. According to a statement from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 20th, the Chinese representative and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and the Indian Special Representative and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, reached a 10-point consensus on the boundary issue. This includes both sides agreeing to set up a group of boundary experts to discuss advancing boundary negotiations in areas where conditions are ripe.
According to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ten-point consensus on the boundary issue is as follows.
1. Both sides positively evaluated the progress made in implementing important understandings reached by their leaders since their Kazan meeting, and believed that peace and tranquility had been maintained in the China-India border areas since the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives.
2. Both sides reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace and tranquility in the border areas, and emphasized resolving relevant issues through friendly consultations in order to promote the overall development of China-India relations.
3. Both sides agreed to seek a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable framework for resolving the boundary issue from the political perspective of the overall bilateral relationship, in accordance with the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles Agreement signed by the two countries in 2005.
4. Both sides agreed to set up a group of boundary experts under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs (WMCC), to discuss advancing boundary negotiations in areas where conditions are ripe.
5. Both sides agreed to set up a working group under the WMCC framework to promote effective management and maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.
6. In addition to the existing Corps Commander-level meetings in the western sector of the border, both sides agreed to establish Corps Commander-level mechanisms for the eastern and middle sectors, and to hold a new round of Corps Commander-level meetings for the western sector as soon as possible.
7. Both sides agreed to make use of the border management mechanisms between diplomatic and military channels, first reaching agreement on relevant principles and modalities to promote de-escalation, ease the situation, and standardize management procedures.
8. Both sides exchanged views on cross-border river cooperation, agreed to make use of the bilateral expert-level mechanism on cross-border rivers to maintain communication on renewing the relevant Memorandum of Understanding on flood season hydrological data sharing. The Chinese side agreed, on humanitarian grounds, to share relevant emergency hydrological data with the Indian side.
9. Both sides agreed to reopen three traditional border trade markets: Renqinggang-Changu, Purang-Gunji, and Jiuba-Nangga.
10. Both sides agreed to hold the 25th Meeting of the Special Representatives in China in 2026.