Swaraj exchanges greetings with Chinese counterpart at UN

Press Trust of India  |  United Nations 

External Affairs Minister has "exchanged greetings" with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi here, an official said today.

"Exchanging greetings!" External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a tweet and posted a picture of the two leaders talking to each other yesterday on the sidelines of the foreign ministers meeting of the Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries.


The brief interaction between Swaraj and Wang came two weeks after Prime Minister Modi had a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the BRICS summit in Xiamen.

The Modi-Xi meeting had taken place after the two countries announced a resolution of the 73-day-long Dokalam standoff which had put bilateral ties under strain.

The SCO countries include China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan as its founding members. and joined the grouping as full members in June in

The SCO foreign ministerial meeting took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session here.

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First Published: Thu, September 21 2017. 19:48 IST