Amid reports that an Indian Army general was denied a visa to visit China, the country's envoy Zhang Yan visited South Block on Friday afternoon to meet officials of the ministry of external affairs, sources said.
They said Zhang was holding meetings with senior officials of the ministry.
The Chinese envoy's South Block sojourn follows a media report that Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal, who heads the Northern Command, was to have visited China for a high-level exchange but was denied a visa as he had Jammu and Kashmir under his area of control.
The external affairs ministry said Jaswal's visit had not taken place "due to certain reasons".
"While we value our exchanges with China, there must be sensitivity to each others' concerns," said ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash.