'Border issues focus': Foreign minister S Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart in Goa

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held bilateral talks with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on the the sidelines of a meeting of SCO foreign ministers in Goa

Jaishankar tweeted that he held a detailed discussion his Chinese counterpart on the bilateral relationship between the countries. He added that the focus of the two countries remains on resolving outstanding issues and ensuring peace and tranquillity in the border areas.

The talks took place in a beach resort in Benaulim on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

The Jaishankar-Gang meeting was their second one in the last two months. The Chinese foreign minister visited India in March to attend a meeting of the G20 foreign ministers.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Jaishankar held talks with Qin during which he conveyed to his Chinese counterpart that the state of India-China relations is "abnormal" because of the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh.