Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he would visit China in the later half of this year, Indo-Asian News Service reported Monday.

"I was invited to visit China both when Premier Wen Jiabao visited India (in 2005) and also when President Hu Jintao visited India (in November 2006). The invitation is there," Singh told the press on board of Air India One Monday on the way back home from the Philippines.

Singh met with Wen on the sidelines of the India-ASEAN and East Asia Summits held in the Philippines.

"The Chinese premier reaffirmed the invitation and I have accepted to visit China in the later half of this year," he said.

India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, special representatives on the bilateral border talk, will meet in New Delhi from Wednesday.

"Both Wen and I agreed that the boundary issue should move forward and the process of the discussion on the issue be accelerated in the light of parameters and guiding principles which we agreed to when he visited India in 2005," Singh said.

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