India's ambassador to China S Jaishankar addresses the media after talks with China conclude

New Delhi: India's Ambassador to China S Jaishankar spoke to the media after Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued statements on the talks. India and China signed eight agreements. Here are the highlights of what Mr Jaishankar said:

• Talks took place at a time when relationship is expanding
• Regional and global issues discussed but not at length as bilateral ones
• Main point - peace and tranquillity on the border is the foundation of our relationship
• Economic issues took up a lot of time in the discussions, trade deficit came up at some length
• Chinese Premier suggested some very practical measures to deal with this
• Infrastructure, energy cooperation discussed
• India-China CEOs forum had its first meeting today
• China's response on water, rivers - Sympathetic
• We are working on liberalising the visa system
• During this visit, the issue (Ladakh incursion) was discussed at some length. The fact is the boundary issue is complicated
• The agreement between leaders was that this needed detailed discussion and they have charged special representatives with that