May 13, 2003	Tuesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 10, 1424

NEW DELHI, May 12: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee plans to visit China next month, Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Monday.

Mr Fernandes said that both Beijing and New Delhi had expressed a desire of working to ensure permanent peace along their 9,000 kms long Himalayan border.

“For the last three years there has not been a bullet fired across the high Himalayan frontiers between China and India,” Mr Fernandes said.’