Indian President Pranab Mukherjee will raise some contentious issues when he meets Chinese leaders during his three-day visit to the China. Mukherjee is likely to question President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang about Masood Azhar and the Nuclear Supplier's Group (NSG) membership dispute between both nations.

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Mukherjee's three-day visit to China will begin from Tuesday. He is the first important leader to visit China after Beijing blocked India's NSG membership and also stifled India's move in the United Nations (UN) to blacklist Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar.

Ahead of the Indian President's visit, China on Monday rebutted India's latest stance that it must exempted from signing Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. China reiterated that signing NPT is the main prerequisite for joining NSG and India cannot be exempted from this obligation.  

Apart from the NSG and NPT issues, Mukherjee is also expected to take up border issues with Chinese leaders. India and China have border disputes over Kashmir, Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh regions. India and China fought a full-fledged war in 1962 to settle the border disputes.                    

The main focus of Mukherjee's three-day visit, however, will be on 'educational issues' and not politics. The Indian President will be accompanied by delegation of esteemed academicians including directors of the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management.

A number of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and agreements will be signed between academic institutions of both nations during Mukherjee's historic visit. The Indian leader will address students at Peking University.

In the past, many Indian Presidents including K R Narayanan and A P J Abdul Kalam have delivered lectures at Peking University.

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