India says long-term troop deployment on the disputed border between the two countries is not in any country’s interest.
India has urged China to hasten the withdrawal of its troops from eastern Ladakh.
India further said that the long-term deployment of troops on the disputed border between the two countries is not in the interest of any country.
According to the Associated Press (AP), troops from India and China have withdrawn from their positions on the shores of Lake Pangong in Ladakh since February following a series of talks between the two countries.
The senior Indian and Chinese military commanders last met on March 12 this year. The foreign ministers of the two countries also held talks via teleconference last month.
According to Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, India hopes that China will work with us to ensure that military activity in the remaining areas is stopped as soon as possible.
He added: This will allow both sides to consider ending military activity in eastern Ladakh as it will be the basis for restoring peace and providing opportunities for the improvement of our bilateral relations.
China has not yet issued a statement in this regard. In May last year, there were several rounds of skirmishes between the two countries’ troops in the Karakoram range, and tensions escalated when Indian and Chinese troops ignored each other’s repeated verbal warnings. After throwing stones at each other, they also clashed.
By June, tensions had risen to the depths of the Deepsang and Gluon valleys in the north. Where India built a paved military road along the disputed border
Was Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in fierce clashes with stone-throwing and punching, while China admitted four months later that four of its soldiers had been killed in the clashes.
Soon after the June clashes, troops withdrew from the Gulwan Valley. Now they have done the same from the area of Pangong Lake, but in Depsang and two other places, including Gogra and Hot Springs, the two forces are still at war with each other.
The two sides fought a border war in 1962, which spread to Ladakh, after which the two countries had to reconcile. Since then, there have been frequent clashes between the two countries’ troops, and troops are often stationed here.
The Line of Actual Control between China and India stretches from Ladakh to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. China claims the state as its own.
According to India the de facto border is 3,488 km (2.167 miles) long, while China says it is much shorter As the name suggests, the Line of Actual Control divides the areas of physical control rather than the claims of the countries.
