"China and India are emerging markets with increasing influence on the international stage. We are glad to see that in the past few years China and India have been moving forward on bilateral relations in a sound and stable way," she said. "China along with other counties have been maintaining that there should be a thorough disucssion on whether non-NPT countries can join the NSG, and this decision should be made on consensus. He will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders before leaving Beijing on Thursday.India recently said there was no binding rule that NSG membership is open only to signitories of NPT. It pointed out that France had become a member of the NSG without signing NPT at that time.Countering the Indian argument, Hua said, "France was a founder of the NSG so the issue of its accpetance to the NSG did not exist.

Source: Times of India May 23, 2016 10:27 UTC