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World: Asia and the Pacific
The Indian minister indicated that the negotiations consisted of several rounds of diplomatic and military talks, with the aim of calming the border confrontation between the two nuclear neighbors.
“If the status quo continues, it is clear that the deployment of soldiers at the border will not decrease,” said the Indian defense minister.
He noted that the two sides are still exchanging messages about the situation at the borders and that there is another round of military negotiations in the near future.
Officials in New Delhi said last month that Indian and Chinese officials had held several meetings to discuss ways to implement a back-to-back withdrawal.
“We hope that some positive results can be achieved through the negotiations,” said the Indian defense minister.
It should be noted that tensions between the two countries rose in June, after forces clashed with fists in the “Jaluan” valley of Baladakh, adjacent to the China-controlled Tibetan plateau, and twenty Indian soldiers were killed, while China suffered. an undetermined number of casualties, which led both parties to their military presence intensified in the border area and men, weapons and supplies were transferred to the mountain area.
India has placed some 50,000 soldiers in the disputed area, some of them at heights of more than 4,572 meters.
India and China share an unspecified border of about 3,800 km, as their forces previously adhered to long-standing protocols to prevent the use of firearms at the border, but tensions have flared since the Jalwan incident, and the two soldiers accused each other of shooting into the air in September.
