India and China will hold the next round of the two-day boundary talks
in Beijing from 18th September during which their Special
Representatives will explore ways to resolve the festering issue
affecting the bilateral ties.

National Security Adviser M K Narayanan will head the Indian
delegation at the talks while the Chinese side will be represented by
State Counsellor Dai Bingguo, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu
told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday.

This will be the 12th round of boundary negotiations between the two
sides since they appointed Special Representatives in 2003 to resolve
the decades-old issue from a political perspective after the
diplomatic parleys failed to yield results.

The latest round of talks comes a year after the last dialogue between
the two sides on the boundary issue in Beijing.

The two Special Representatives Narayanan and Dai are also expected
to touch upon other issues of mutual interest during the 18th-19th
September talks.