India signed Panchsheel Treaty with which country?

The correct answer is China.

• The “Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India” was signed on 29th April 1954 in Beijing by the Indian Ambassador N. Raghavan and Chang Han-fu, the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister of China.
  • It is remembered as the Panchsheel Agreement.

Additional Information

• On April 29, 1954, Panchsheel, or the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, were first formally enunciated in the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India.
  • In its preamble, it stated that the two governments have resolved to enter into the present Agreement based on the following principles:- 
    • i. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty
    • ii. Mutual non-aggression
    • iii. Mutual non-interference
    • iv. Equality and mutual benefit
    • v. Peaceful co-existence.
• According to documents published by the Ministry of External Affairs, Panchsheel was incorporated into the Ten Principles of International Peace and Cooperation enunciated in the Declaration issued by the April 1955 Bandung Conference of 29 Afro-Asian countries.
  • The universal relevance of Panchsheel was emphasised when its tenets were incorporated in a resolution on peaceful co-existence presented by India, Yugoslavia and Sweden, and unanimously adopted on December 11, 1957, by the United Nations General Assembly.