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The fresh round of senior commander-level talks, disengagement in Hot Springs and Gogra is on the agenda
PremiumMore than three months after India and China concluded their 11th round of military talks, the two neighbouring countries will hold the 12th round of the Corps Commander-level talks on Saturday at 10:30 am.
The fresh round of senior commander-level talks, disengagement in Hot Springs and Gogra is on the agenda. The discussions will be held at Moldo on the Chinese side of the LAC (Line of Actual Control) - the de-facto India-China border - near Chushul on the South Bank of Pangong.
The standoff has left ties between the two countries in tatters.
In February, the two countries pulled back troops from the banks of the Pangong Tso lake seen as a seriously contested spot. That had generated hopes of a pull back of troops from other areas as well along the border which however did not happen.
There was no word about any agreement between the two sides on the Depsang Plains in the far north where Chinese troops have been preventing Indian soldiers from accessing their traditional patrolling points PP10, PP11, PP11A, PP12 and PP13. The Depsang Plains are close to the strategic Indian base at Daulat Beg Oldie, near the Karakoram Pass.
The commander-level talks on Saturday follow a meeting between Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi earlier this month in Tashkent.
An Indian statement at the end of the talks had said that the two ministers had agreed that senior military commanders should meet “at the earliest."
“They also agreed that in this meeting, the two sides should discuss all the remaining issues and seek a mutually acceptable solution. There was also an understanding that both sides will continue to ensure stability on the ground and neither side will take any unilateral action that could increase tension," the Indian statement had added.
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