New Delhi: India and China are holding another round of high-level military talks to move forward on the disengagement process in the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh.
He said that the 12th round of Corps Commander level talks is being held at the Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
As per the schedule, the talks started at 10.30 am.
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The Indian delegation is led by Leh-based XIV Corps chief Lt Gen PGK Menon and Additional Secretary (East Asia) Naveen Srivastava in the Ministry of External Affairs.
On the other hand, the Chinese military delegation is led by Xu Qing, commander of the PLA’s Western Theater Command, who was appointed earlier this month.
India is expecting positive results on the decontamination process at Hot Springs and Gogra, news agency PTI quoted sources as saying.
The 12th round of talks is taking place after a gap of three-and-a-half months as the 11th round of military talks took place on April 9 at the Chushul border point on the Indian side of the LAC and lasted for nearly 13 hours. .
This comes weeks after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar strongly conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that the prolongation of the 14-month standoff and the current situation in eastern Ladakh is impacting bilateral ties “in a negative way”. .
The two foreign ministers had a one-hour bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Tajik capital city of Dushanbe on July 14.
In the meeting, EAM Jaishankar stressed that any unilateral change in status quo along the LAC was “not acceptable” to India and that overall relations could develop only after complete restoration of peace and tranquility in eastern Ladakh.
In military talks held in April, the two sides discussed ways to advance the demilitarization process in Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang, with the larger aim of de-escalating tensions in the region. But there was no further movement in the dissolution process after that.
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