India, China Decide To Resume Direct Flights, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

India and China held a two-day foreign secretary-level talks in which it was decided to resume Kailash-Mansarovar yatra in the summer. The relevant mechanism will discuss the modalities for doing so as per existing agreements, the foreign ministry said in a statement. There was also an in-principle agreement for resumption of direct flights between the two nations.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had visited Beijing for a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Foreign Minister mechanism between India and China today.

As agreed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Kazan in October, the two sides reviewed the state of India-China bilateral relations and agreed to take certain people-centric steps to stabilize and rebuild ties.