Home Minister asks China to sit and talk with India to resolve border issue

Asserting that no nation on earth could warn India, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday asked China to sit and talk with India to resolve the border imbroglio.

"Not a single nation in the world can give warning to India. India has now become a powerful nation in the world. As far as India China border is concerned I believe that China should sit and talk with India to resolve the issue," Home Minister told media persons here .

Expressing serious concern over New Delhi mulling to build a wide stretch of roadways along the Chinese border in Arunachal Pradesh, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Wednesday asked India not to complicate the border imbroglio.

"Before final settlement is reached we hope that India will not take any action that may further complicate the situation," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

Indicating that China would not give up its claim on Arunachal Pradesh, he said, "We still need to verify the specifics. The boundary issue between China and India is left by colonial past. "We need to deal with this issue properly. There is a dispute about the eastern part of the China India border.