Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla on the issue of the India-China border. (Image: ANI)
Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla said there was a link between what was happening on the border and the broader relationship of nations. “It’s obvious,” he said.
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Speaking on the border conflict between India and China, Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla said on Friday that business between the two countries could not continue as usual unless there is peace in the border areas.
Shringla said the conflict was an unprecedented situation, unlike anything seen since 1962. “We have lost the lives of our soldiers for the first time, which has not happened in the last 40 years,” he told a World Affairs Council in India. (ICWA) webinar.
“Our business cannot continue as usual, unless there is peace in our border areas. The normal bilateral relationship will suffer,” he said, two days after the Indian government banned 118 mostly Chinese mobile apps, including the popular online multiplayer game. PUBG, after a new round of border confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh.
Shringla said there was a link between what was happening on the border and the broader relationship of nations. “It’s obvious,” she said.
“As far as we are concerned, there will be no compromise on our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Shringla said. At the same time, he added that India, as a responsible nation, is always ready to speak up. “Our lines of communication are open,” he said.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that he was convinced that a solution to the current India-China border conflict will only be found through the mastery of diplomacy.
Jaishankar had said that neither party should unilaterally change the status quo, on a day when India accused China of effecting a unilateral change in the region’s status quo along the Royal Line of Control (LAC) in Ladakh. . According to him, it was vital that countries reach an agreement. “The world has a lot at stake,” he had said.
Tension between the two sides had multiplied after violent clashes in the Galwan Valley, eastern Ladakh, on June 15, in which 20 members of the Indian army were killed. The Chinese side also suffered casualties, but has not yet released details.
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