India to break aviation impasse with China

New Delhi: In a bid to resolve the impasse with China over allowing more flights, a group of top officials of various ministries met here on Wednesday and worked out several options for starting negotiations with Beijing.
The impasse came about after New Delhi withheld permission to Chinese cargo carrier Great Wall of China to fly into India on security grounds. Beijing promptly countered it by not clearing the flights of Jet Airways to Shanghai and Indian (to be merged into Air India) to Guangzhou.
The Inter Ministerial Group, including officials of the Ministries of Civil Aviation, External Affairs, Finance and Home Ministry, worked out some options at Wednesday's meeting.
"All options will be weighed and we will hold further consultations among ourselves before finalising our position," a senior official said here.
11/07/07 PTI/Economic Times

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