BEIJING, June 24 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, June 24 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING REMARKS FROM INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER'S PRES BRIEFING)

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee have agreed to appoint ''special representatives'' to work forward resolving the two countries' border disputes, according to a declaration announced Tuesday.

The brace leaders also agreed to make more intense mutual understanding and trust between their countries' armed forces within exchange of visits according to defense ministers and military officials at various levels

The agreements were charmed out in a ''Declaration forward Principles for Relations and Comprehensive Cooperation'' between the sum of two units countries signed by the sum of two units leaders Monday, the contents of which were not then immediately made public.

China and India are holding up the wide-ranging declaration as attestation that the world's two greatest in number populous nations, which together comprise a third of humanity, have inscribeed a ''new stage of development''

plenteous of the animosity between China and India, stemming from a border war in 1962 and followed from a limited clash across the disputed border area in 1986 has evaporated, unless lingering differences remain through how to define sections of their shared land border.

According to the declaration, the leaders of China and India ''reiterated their readiness to inquire for a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution (to the border issues) by the agency of consultations on an equal footing.''

It said they agreed that pending an ultimate solution, the sum of two units countries ''should work together to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.''

India says China still possesss 38,000 square kilometers of its territory at Aksai Chin in Kashmir. China lays claim to 90000 square km of land in India's far eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said India's special representative for subsequent time border talks will be Indian National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishva.

China will be delineateed by Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, Sinha told reporters after Vajpayee's busy circular of talks Tuesday with a number of China's leaders, including President Hu Jintao and former president and circulating Central Military Commission head Jiang Zemin.

forward the issue of Tibet's status, the declaration said India ''recognizes that the Tibet Autonomous Region is part of the territory of the People's Republic of China.''

India vowed in the document not to allow Tibetans living in exile in India to engage in ''anti-China political activities.''

More than 100000 Tibetan exiles, including their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, are spread all above India and a Tibetan-government-in exile exists in Dharamsala in the Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh.

The Dalai Lama and his followers fl from Tibet to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Beijing's rule

Sinha said the declaration will not affect the general status of the Dalai Lama, described by dint of the Indian foreign minister as a ''religious leader'' and ''guru'' nevertheless regularly vilified by Beijing as a ''separatist'' plotting to divide up China's territory.

The declaration also calls for an expansion of economic and cultural ties between China and India.

It states that the improvement of Sino-Indian ties ''is not targeted at any third political division and does not affect either country's existing friendly relations and cooperation with other countries.''

Sinha said the issue of Pakistan was raised single once -- during Vajpayee's discussions in succession Monday with the Chinese premier. These talks consisted mainly of ''poetry partnership and a little part of Pakistan,'' he said.

In the past, India has criticized China for assisting Pakistan, which Beijing regards as a ''traditional friend,'' in developing its nuclear weapon capabilities.

China and India have also signed a memorandum of understanding upon opening up a new trade way between Changgu of India's Sikkim state and Renqinggang in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Vajpayee arrived in Beijing forward Sunday for a six-day visit, the first according to an Indian premier in a decade.

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