Trilateral meet wants India, China to remove mistrust

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, SEPT. 8. Scholars from India, China and Russia, meeting in Moscow for the first time in a triangular format, have agreed that cooperation among the three nations had ``a rich and positive potential''.

The breakthrough meet, held on September 5 and 6 under the title of International Academic Conference `China-India- Russia: Challenges of Globalisation and Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation', was attended by foreign policy experts from the three countries and was closed to the press. The conference received greetings from Russia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Igor Ivanov, and China's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Wang Yi. India was represented by Mr. G.P. Deshpande, Director of the Indian Institute of Chinese Studies, Mr. S.V. Ranganathan, former Ambassador to China, and some scholars. The Chinese delegation was led by the President of the China Institute of Oriental Studies, Prof. Yang Chengxu.

A carefully worded joint press release issued after the conference said ``trilateral cooperation between China, India and Russia has a rich and positive potential based on common or similar positions on the broad range of the most important international issues''. The issues were defined as democratisation of international relations, multipolar world, opposition to hegemony, struggle against international terrorism, extremism, separatism, crime and drug trafficking. The participants also agreed that trilateral cooperation will not imply ``any diminution of national autonomy or of the national identity''.

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