RUSSIA, INDIA AND CHINA SUMMIT

IN BANGALORE
Bangalore hosted trilateral meeting of RIC
(Russia, India, and China) foreign ministers on
Tuesday, the 27th November. This is the first
important meeting of
INSPITE OF
international importance
BORDER DISPUTE
after SAARC, which was
BETWEEN INDIA
held in 1986, AND CHINA AND
some 23
years ago. UNWARM S.M.Krishna,
Yang Jeichi RUSSIAN AND and Sergei
Lavrov, CHINESE foreign
ministers of RELATIONS, THE India, China
and Russia HOLDING OF THIS respectively,
held SUMMIT IS VERY discussions
IMPORTANT
on wide ranging
issues including
international terrorism,
climate change, international financial order,
Afghanistan, trade and commerce and IMF
and World Bank etc.

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 This meeting had assumed immense
significance in view of recent standoff
between India and China on Arunachal
Pradesh. PM Dr. Man Mohan Singh’s visit to
Arunachal Pradesh was opposed by China. Dr
Singh met Wen Jiabao, premier of China in
Thailand and tried to diffuse the tension. It
has been conveyed to the Chinese that
Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India
and Chinese stand on this issue is not
acceptable to it. On Dalai Lama Indian
premiere has categorically stated that he is
an honored guest of India.
The declaration singed after this meeting,
demanded among other things, reforms in IMF
and World Bank. The three leaders said that
India, China and Russia are major players in
world economy and therefore should be given
at least 5% voting rights in these international
financial institutions. Commending the role of
international community in fighting terrorism
in Afghanistan, the leaders expressed hope

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that the effort would continue till the
normalcy is restored.
Decision was also taken that next meeting of
RIC would be held in
China. On issues like RIC MEETING IN
BANGALORE HAS ASSUMED
climatic change, they IMMENSE INTERNATIONAL
SIGNIFICANCE IN THE
resolved to take PREVAILING POLITICO-
ECONOMIC GLOBAL
concerted effort and SCENARIO

stand on Copenhagen. It
is worth mentioning that
India and China have signed a bilateral
agreement on climate change and have
resolved to work together in the field of
climate change. These three nations put
together constitute 20 % land mass and 39 %
world population, and in this backdrop this
meeting and decisions taken therein assume
great significance.
They also discussed issues related to trade
and commerce and reiterated that more steps
would be taken to ensure that trade volume
between these countries increases.

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If RIC work together in international forums
like G-20, WTO and SCO etc can yield very
good results. Although issues of Arunachal
and Dalai Lama were also raised by Chinese
counterpart, but SM Krishna downplayed it
intelligently and this meeting remained
confined to cooperation rather than
confrontation.