New Delhi:China has ruled out the possibility of Chinese president Xi Jinping with Prime Minister NarendraModi during G-20 summit in Hamburg in Germany.

China has already set the tone, with a senior government official saying that “the atmosphere is not right for a bilateral meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson GopalBaglay, has made it clear that there was no official meeting with Xi slotted on Modi’s Hamburg schedule.

“As mentioned earlier, the PM is visiting Hamburg from July 6 to 8 for the G-20 summit. His bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit are with Argentina President Mauricio Macri, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Italy, Japan PM Shinzo Abe, Mexico PM Enrique Pena Nieto, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, UK PM Theresa May and Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc. There is no change in the Prime Minister’s schedule,” said Baglay.

In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson GengShuang said, “As for the arrangement of the bilateral meeting between President Xi and Prime Minister Modi, I have to point out that recently Indian troops trespassed into China and obstructed normal activities of Chinese troops in Doklam region. This endangers China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and has damaged the political foundations of bilateral relations between China and India.”