The 10th round of military dialogue comes a day after the Indian Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) completed the disengagement process in Ladakh’s tense Pangong Tso sector on Friday.
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2021 08:55 AM IST
Indian and Chinese military commanders discussed further disengagement at other friction points in eastern Ladakh along the Royal Line of Control (LAC) on Saturday in a meeting that lasted nearly 16 hours.
The meeting of officers with the rank of commander of the corps, in Moldo, on the Chinese side of LAC, to ease tensions in the Ladakh sector, began at 10 am on Saturday and lasted until 2 am on Sunday.
The 10th round of military dialogue comes a day after the Indian Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) completed the disengagement process in Ladakh’s tense Pangong Tso sector on Friday. Outstanding issues with the PLA in Depsang, Hot Springs and Gogra, sticking points on the disputed border, were on the agenda during Saturday’s meeting, people familiar with the development said.
“The proposals discussed during the talks to normalize the border situation will be presented by both parties to their higher authorities. The agreement on the next steps of the withdrawal will be finalized after that. We hope that the disconnection in the remaining sticking points will go smoothly, as it did in the main problem area (Pangong Tso heights), ”a person following the events before the meeting concluded told HT.
During the ninth round of talks, it was decided that the Chinese PLA will move its forces east to Finger 8 on the north bank, while Indian troops will move to their base near Finger 3, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh previously said al Parliament. month, adding that the two sides also agreed to temporarily suspend their regular patrol activities on the north shore of Pangong Lake.
India’s claim line runs to finger 8, while China’s claim runs to finger 4.
The border confrontation between India and China began last May and both sides deployed 50,000 troops each in the Ladakh theater along with advanced weaponry. The PLA deployments in Depsang have hampered the access of Indian soldiers to patrol points (PP) 10, 11, 11-A, 12 and 13, as reported by the Hindustan Times. The patrol activity of the Indian Army has also been affected in Hot Springs and Gogra, where rival troops are deployed forward and where the skeletal withdrawal took place last year.
Earlier this week, for the first time, the Chinese military admitted that four of its soldiers were killed and one officer was injured in the clash between troops from both sides in the Galwan Valley on June 15, 2020.
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