Oct 30, 2024 04:26 PM IST
The Indian armed forces are conducting verification, people aware of the matter said.
The disengagement exercise between India and China in Depsang and Demchok has been completed. The Indian armed forces are conducting verification, people aware of the matter said.
The Indian Army’s sources told ANI that coordinated patrolling will start soon by both sides. Ground commanders will continue to hold talks.
The two sides will exchange sweets for Diwali tomorrow.
The Indian and Chinese troops were verifying the vacation of positions and removal of infrastructure.
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri on October 21 announced that New Delhi and Beijing reached an agreement to disengage in the remaining friction points at LAC near eastern Ladakh.
Following the key agreement, the two countries began troops disengagement at the two friction points at Demchok and Depsang plains the next day.
India and China’s relations deteriorated because of the Chinese troops’ aggression along the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border, in April 2020. The relations hit rock bottom on June 15 2020 after 20 Indian soldiers died in the line of duty thwarting the Chinese offensive in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley.
India has been maintaining since then that the country’s bilateral relations with China will normalise only after the situation at the LAC returns to what it was before May 2020.
Last week, following a thaw in the India-China bilateral relationship, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia’s Kazan.
PM Modi said maintaining peace at the border should remain our priority.
“This is our first formal meeting after five years. Excellency, we welcome the agreements that we have reached over the border. Maintaining peace and tranquillity over the border should remain our priority, and mutual trust, mutual respect and mutual sensitivity should remain the basis of our relationship. I am confident that we will hold talks with an open heart and our discussions would be constructive,” PM Modi said at the meeting.
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