India today announced an agreement with China to resume direct flights between the two countries, almost five years after their interruption due to the global Covid-19 pandemic and diplomatic tensions.

This decision, included in the context of tensions between the two neighbors, was taken at the end of the visit of a senior representative of Indian diplomacy to Beijing, Vicram Misri.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, the two countries ended up in ‘In principle agreement to resume direct airline connections“

“The competent authorities of the two countries will meet and negotiate very soon“To enable these connections to be repeated, he added.

New Delhi and Beijing have also decided to work to restore “mutual trust” between the two countries in relation to commercial issues, the Indian ministry also stressed.

The Indian Foreign Ministry states in its announcement that ‘Specific concerns in the financial and commercial sector were discussed with the aim of resolving these issues and promoting long -term policy transparency and predictability“

Both countries have also agreed to repeat the dialogue on step-by-step exchanges and with a first meeting of the Indian-China mechanism at expert level, adds New Delhi.

Today, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang told Indo interlocutor Vicram Misri that the two countries should work in the same direction, explore more substantial measures, and commit to mutual understanding.

China and India should be committed to “mutual support and mutual progress” rather than “suspicion” and “alienation”, Wang said during the meeting of the two officials, according to the reading of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

This visit to Beijing by Vicram Misri is the most important that a member of Indian diplomacy has made in China since the relations between the two neighboring countries have worsened after a violent clash in the Himalayas border area, which cost the life of the life. At least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese.

The two Asian giants share a 3,500km border which remains potentially cause of tensions, with sporadic clashes.

Beijing and New Delhi are regularly denied that they are trying to occupy territories along their high altitude line.

Relations between the two countries have improved over the last four months with several meetings at senior officials, including talks between Chinese President Xi Jing and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Monti in Russia in October.