India, China have reached agreement on patrolling along LAC, says New Delhi
The deal will allow ‘patrolling as we had been doing till 2020’, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said.
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India and China have reached a patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control “leading to the disengagement” of the two countries’ militaries in eastern Ladakh, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.
“Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other in a variety of forums,” Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said. “As a result of these discussions, an agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020.”
Misri added: “We will be taking the next steps on this”.
The statement came during a press conference concerning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia’s Kazan for the 16th BRICS summit between Tuesday and Thursday.
The foreign secretary did not provide more details about the agreement between India and China, nor did he clarify if their militaries had completed their disengagement from Ladakh.
Responding to a reporter’s question on whether the patrolling problem along the Line of Actual Control had been resolved or the broader military standoff between New Delhi and Beijing, Misri said that the discussions had in the past “resulted in the...
