``utual sensitivity`` between India, China necessary: VP

New Delhi, Nov 21(PTI) In the backdrop of recriminations
between India and China over host of issues including
Arunachal Pradesh, India's Vice President Hamid Ansari
Saturday said "mutual sensitivity" to each other’s concerns
was necessary for stability and security in the region.
Ansari said in the last six decades, India and China have
enunciated the five principles of peaceful co-existence as the
corner stone of inter-state relations, but "the bilateral
relations between them did not always confirm to those very
principles."
"Active partnership between New Delhi and Beijing and
mutual sensitivity to each other’s concerns is thus vitally
necessary if stability, security and prosperity in the shared
spaces in their near and distant neighbourhood are to be
effectively ensured," he said.
The Vice President was addressing an Indian Council for
World Affairs seminar here on 'Emerging China: Prospects for
Partnership in Asia'.
Observing that economic cooperation between India and
China has become a principal driver of their strategic and
cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity, he said that
leaderships of the two countries realise that "countries
compete in global markets and such competition is constructive
and beneficial rather than adversarial." (MORE) PTI