As India-China continue to share a tense relationship over the ongoing border dispute at the Line of Actual Control, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday held the first joint virtual conference with his counterparts from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal during which he proposed a four-point plan. Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali attended the virtual meeting, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry press release. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi did not participate in the meeting. Pakistan was represented by its Economic Affairs Minister. Addressing the meeting, which is the first involving the four countries, Wang proposed the four-point action plan including consolidating the consensus on unity and fight against the pandemic, avoiding politicisation and stigmatisation of the coronavirus and firmly support the World Health Organization in playing its due role to jointly building global health community.
