India and China agreed on a framework for a settlement to their boundary dispute
Media Release
Jun. 28, 2006

India and China today discussed various aspects of the agreed framework for a settlement to their boundary dispute and decided to hold the next round of talks between their Special Representatives on the issue in India at a mutually convenient date.

and his Chinese counterpart Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo held two-day talks in Xi''an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province and Beijing. The two have been tasked with finding a package boundary deal within the framework of the guiding principles. "The Special Representatives continued their discussions on an agreed framework for a boundary settlement on the basis of the Agreement on Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for Settlement of India-China Boundary Question," the Indian Embassy said in a brief statement after the conclusion of the in-camera negotiations. "Talks were held in a friendly, cooperative and constructive atmosphere," the release said commenting on the eight round of talks on the issue. Both sides agreed to hold the next round of talks between the Special Representatives in India at a mutually convenient time, which will be decided later through the diplomatic channel, the release said. Narayanan also had separate meetings with Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing during which they discussed bilateral issues and especially the ongoing boundary negotiation process. Pak begins evacuation of people from around Muzaffarabad ISLAMABAD, June 27 (Agencies): Pakistan today launched the process of evacuating 11,000 people from their houses around Muzaffarabad, the quake-hit capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), after their villages were declared unsafe and prone to further landslides, officials said. "Some 1,054 families or 6,515 individuals living in 22 villages near Muzaffarabad and more than 700 families (around 4,500 individuals) living in eight villages in Hattian Bala (a district close to Mazaffarabad) will be evacuated before July 1 when the rainy monsoon (season) starts," Raja Abas, a commissioner from the government's Camp Management Organisation (CMO), said in the PoK capital. "The reason for the evacuation is that these villages have been recently declared highly hazardous areas by the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and prone to further landslides," Abas explained. "These people are in serious danger, they have to be shifted." Over 75,000 people were killed and thousands more injured after a powerful earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and PoK on October 8 last year. Over 3.5 million people were rendered homeless across the region. Authorities maintain the displaced villagers would be relocated to different camps in and around Muzaffarabad, where thousands of quake survivors are still living in tents, more than eight months after the disaster struck.

India and China agreed on a framework for a settlement to their boundary dispute
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