New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is likely to visit India at the end of this month, even though the trip has not been fully locked and the date has not been confirmed, people who are familiar with these developments on Wednesday.

If the visit runs according to the plan, it will be the first by a senior Chinese leader to India after the two countries locked the horns in the military deadlock that dragged in the Ladakh sector from the actual control line (LAC) since May 2020. The deadlock, and a brutal clash in Galwan Valley In June 2020 which resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese forces, took bilateral bonds with a low time.

There is no official word from the Ministry of External Affairs on Yi’s plans reported to visit India. The people quoted above said the anonymity conditions that both parties were related, but this visit was not fully resolved.

People said that the proposal for the visit came from the Chinese side and there was a plan for Yi, who held the rank of state council members, to also visit Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Pakistan as part of a trip to the region.

Post Kathmandu reported on Tuesday that Yi was expected to visit Nepal from March 26-27 to hold talks with President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Narayan Khadka Narayan Khadka. He is also expected to suppress to advance projects under the Chinese belt and road initiative (BRI) while in Kathmandu, the report said.

Not immediately clear whether Yi intends to visit India before or after his trip to Nepal. The people quoted above said Bhutan’s party was not interested in a visit from the Chinese side.

Since the LAC deadlock began, the top leadership of India and China has participated in several groups of virtual groupings such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS), despite bilateral meetings, both directly or virtual, rare occur.