Modi calls for early settlement of China border issue

China's President Xi Jinping (C) scatters rose petals at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Rajghat in New Delhi September 18, 2014. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for an early settlement with China on their disputed common border, taking a robust line on security after summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. "We have to address the boundary question very soon," Modi told a joint news conference, with Xi sitting to his right, urging "clarification" of the Line of Actual Control - the front lines where fighting ended in a 1962 border war. (Reporting by Douglas Busvine; Editing by John Chalmers)