India, July 15 -- India and China must build on "good progress" in normalising their relations by addressing issues related to the border, including de-escalation, and avoid "restrictive trade measures and roadblocks" to economic cooperation, external affairs minister S Jaishankar told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday.

Jaishankar, who met Wang in Beijing after arriving in China to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), reiterated that stable bilateral ties can be built only on the basis of mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity.

"We have made good progress in the past nine months for the normalisation of our bilateral relations. It is a result of the resolution of f...