New Delhi: India and China have reached an agreement on LAC issues and both sides have agreed to restart patrols, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri confirmed during a special press briefing on Monday. “Based on the results of the discussions that have taken place over the past few weeks, an agreement has been reached on patrol arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the border areas between India and China. And this is leading to disengagement and eventually a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020,” Misri said during a press conference.
Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a standoff at certain friction points in eastern Ladakh even as the two sides completed disengagement from several areas after extensive diplomatic and military talks. India has maintained that its ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas.
Early last month, China said Beining and New Delhi were able to “reduce differences” and build “some consensus” on withdrawing troops from friction points to end the standoff in eastern Ladakh and agreed to maintain the dialogue to reach a mutually acceptable resolution at an “early date.” “The two sides agreed to reach a resolution at an early date that is acceptable to both sides,” Zhang Xiaogang, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, had said in the last week of September.
“Both sides agreed to reach a resolution at an early date that is acceptable to both sides,” he said.
He was responding to a question on talks between the two countries on disengagement from remaining friction points, especially Demchok and Depsang, to end the more than four-year-old military standoff in eastern Ladakh that led to freezing of relations between the two countries.
On September 3, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, commenting on talks between Wang and Doval, said that “the frontline armies of the two countries have withdrawn in four areas of the western sector of the border.” between China and India, including the Galwan Valley.”
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