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Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in the Indian parliament said the move was taken after continuous communication on the two countries’ military and diplomatic channels since September and a nine-point meeting between senior military officials.
Before, China had also said the same. Eight months after the bloody conflict in eastern Ladakh, both India and China finally agreed to withdraw troops from the Royal Line of Control.
According to the BBC, a spokesman for the Chinese National Defense Ministry said that the withdrawal of troops from the Pangong Lake area had begun. The army is being transferred according to the agreement reached between the two parties in the talks at the military commander level.
In June last year, 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash between Indian and Chinese forces in Galwan, in eastern Ladakh. Although the two sides subsequently halted the talks through negotiations, they exchanged complaints about the actual violation of the Line of Control. That is why both countries increased their military presence in the Royal Line of Control.
This time the ice has melted. Under the agreement, Indian and Chinese troops will gradually withdraw from their current positions in the coming days. From the north shore of Lake Pangong, the Chinese army will move east to its permanent camp. And the Indian army will move away from finger point four and return to permanent camp.
In addition, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that the two countries had agreed to dismantle the military structures built on the north and south coasts of Pangong.
He added that the military commanders of the two countries would meet again in 48 hours to discuss the withdrawal of troops from other places.
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