BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese&nbsp;Foreign&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;Wang&nbsp;Yi&nbsp;said&nbsp;at forum in&nbsp;Tibet&nbsp;on Thursday that nations in the region must respect each other's sovereignty, amid simmering tensions with India over a disputed border in the eastern Himalayas.
"We must adhere to mutual respect&nbsp;and&nbsp;trust, jointly maintain regional unity,&nbsp;and&nbsp;respect each other's sovereignty&nbsp;and&nbsp;territorial integrity,"&nbsp;Wang&nbsp;said&nbsp;at the forum in the city of Nyingchi, 160 km (100 miles) from Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as part of&nbsp;Tibet.
India's&nbsp;foreign&nbsp;ministry did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment.
Attending the forum in&nbsp;Tibet, the third round of trans-Himalayan dialogue since its inception in 2018, were officials from countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mongolia. Representatives from India, as in 2018&nbsp;and&nbsp;2019, were not among the attendees.
Relations between China&nbsp;and&nbsp;India nosedived in 2020 after a border clash in which 20 Indian&nbsp;and&nbsp;four Chinese soldiers were killed. This year, China angered India when it released a map showing the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern Himalayas to be a part of southern&nbsp;Tibet.
Tibet, which Beijing&nbsp;said&nbsp;it peacefully liberated in 1951 after sending Chinese troops into the region, has also drawn international concern with U.N. member states due to publicly examine&nbsp;China's&nbsp;rights record in early 2024 as part of a review process at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
U.N. experts have this year voiced repeated concerns over&nbsp;Tibet, most recently in August when they raised the plight of jailed&nbsp;Tibetan rights defenders.
In August The United States imposed visa sanctions on unidentified Chinese officials for allegedly taking part in "forced assimilation" of&nbsp;Tibetan children through state-run boarding schools seeking to eliminate&nbsp;Tibet's traditions, according to a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
China has vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
Wang&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Thursday that&nbsp;lies&nbsp;fabricated&nbsp;by "some Western forces"&nbsp;about&nbsp;Tibet&nbsp;were&nbsp;untenable&nbsp;and&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;ideological&nbsp;bias,&nbsp;and&nbsp;will unravel "in the face of facts".
(Reporting by Ryan WooEditing by Deborah Kyvrikosaios)

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