New Delhi (NVI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi this afternoon and reviewed the status of disengagement along Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.
“Spoke to State Councilor & Foreign Minister Wang Yi this afternoon. Discussed the implementation of our Moscow Agreement and reviewed the status of disengagement,” Jaishankar said in a tweet in the evening.
Spoke to State Councilor & Foreign Minister Wang Yi this afternoon. Discussed the implementation of our Moscow Agreement and reviewed the status of disengagement.
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) February 25, 2021
This is their first conversation after the disengagement at Pangong Tso in Ladakh.
Pertinent to mention here that amid the heightened border tensions between India and China following the Galwan Valley incident of June last year, Jaishankar had met Wang Yi in Moscow in September. The two leaders had agreed on a five-point course of action to disengage and reduce tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The disengagement process between the two armies in the Pangong Lake area began on February 10 this year and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted in Parliament the next day that India had made no compromise in the agreement.
On February 20, the 10th round of commander level talks were held on the Chinese side of the Moldo/Chushul border meeting point, within 48 hours of the completion of disengagement process.
The military face-off between the two countries began in May last year after China tried to change the status quo at the LAC.
As China sent thousands of troops along the LAC in violation all the agreements, India also mobilised matching forces, resulting in eyeball-to-eyeball situation. At one point of time, each side had around 50,000 troops along with tanks, missiles and fighter planes deployed along the LAC.
-ARK
