India announced the dates for the G20 summit in Srinagar over opposition from China and Pakistan, who had previously protested against last month's G20 summit in Arunachal Pradesh.
While Pakistan pressed its G20 allies, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and China, to prevent the meeting in Srinagar, Beijing had responded to a gathering of the group in Arunachal last month by providing "created names" for 11 more locations in the state to support its claim over the area.
A meeting of the working group on tourism will take place from May 22 to 24 according to an update India made to the G20 calendar. Like in the case of Arunachal, China is expected to disregard the Srinagar conference, although according to official sources here, there was never any question about it.
Preparations started for the meeting last year. G20 meetings are taking place in all 28 states and 8 Union territories. Both Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are integral parts of India,” said a source.
The G20 summit in Arunachal had about 50 attendees, and the administration anticipates a similar turnout for the conference in Srinagar, which will provide India the chance to dispute Pakistan's allegations of human rights abuses in the Kashmir Valley.
The government hopes to convey to the world through the high-profile event that normalcy has returned in the Union territory. China had last year expressed its disapproval of the proposed meeting as it asked “relevant parties" to not complicate the situation by making any unilateral move.