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Last updated: May 20, 2023, at 00:43 IST
FILE PHOTO: A member of the Indian military force stands guard at the G20 foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi, India, March 2, 2023. (Photo: Reuters)
India, as the current chair of the G20, has arranged a series of nationwide meetings in preparation for the upcoming summit in New Delhi in September.
China said on Friday that it opposes next week’s G20 tourism meeting in Kashmir and will not attend.
“China resolutely opposes holding any kind of G-20 meetings in the disputed territories, and will not attend such meetings,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a regular press conference.
India, as the current chair of the G20, has arranged a series of nationwide meetings in preparation for the upcoming summit in New Delhi next September.
In 2019, India created two union territories of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. China and Pakistan opposed this move.
Last month, China skipped another G-20 meeting held in Ladakh.
Meanwhile, India asserted that changing the status of Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter.
New Delhi had previously rejected the statements of Beijing and Islamabad on Jammu and Kashmir.
“The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh are and always will be integral and inalienable parts of India. No other country has the standing to comment on the same,” the Ministry of External Affairs has previously commented on the comments of Pakistan and China.
India and China have also been locked in a long-running border standoff in eastern Ladakh for three years.
Bilateral relations were severely strained following the bloody clash in Galwan Valley, eastern Ladakh, in June 2020.
(with agency input)
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