External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday on the eastern Ladakh border standoff with China said there is no dearth of determination, tenacity and effectiveness in terms of what India has to do to safeguard its national security. He also said that India and China have made some progress by disengaging in several areas, including Pangong Tso, but added that the “major problem” of the “large deployment” of Chinese troops in the region remains.
In an interaction session at the India Today Conclave, Jaishankar said the situation will remain the same as long as China maintains the deployment of troops. “Let me be very clear about one thing. Yes, they have done things that are in violation of agreements etc. But there is no lack of determination and persistence or effectiveness in what we have to do to protect our national security. Jaishankar said India made additional deployments and they stayed through a winter.
“We are drawing closer to another winter. I am confident that the Indian Armed Forces will do whatever it takes to defend this country and I hope that everyone who is properly patriotic will have the same faith.” The Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs called for a discussion on the border dispute a few months ago and alleged that the government was not being transparent with the opposition in the matter, Jaishankar dismissed the criticisms.
The foreign minister said he expected “people outside the government to be supportive of larger national aims and goals. Now if sometimes it is not because people are busy with politics, let me just say that it is a lot.” It is a sorry state of affairs,” he said, “no one can say that I have not been told enough or that there is a lack of briefing.” “Somewhere, we need a sense of responsibility and maturity in matters of national security,” he said. said. On the border dispute, he said that India has developed a good relationship with China which is based on the fact that there will be peace and tranquility in the border areas. “It was not just an assumption or negotiation, it was written into the agreements between us. Now come 2020, we saw the Chinese side disregard those agreements for reasons that are still not clear to us. “I still haven’t heard a credible explanation why they chose to bring that size of forces in that area. Our border. Now, if peace and tranquility is breached and trying to unilaterally change the status quo of the LAC And if big forces are brought to the border in violation of written agreements, obviously the relationship will be affected.”
Jaishankar said there is a need to stick to boundary agreements to normalize relations. “If we need to get back to a normal relationship that they say they want, and we both believe it’s in our mutual interest, then I think they need to do the right thing,” he said. needs to live with agreements,” he said.
The border standoff between Indian and Chinese armies started on May 5 last year in eastern Ladakh after violent clashes in the Pangong Lake area. Both sides gradually increased their deployment by carrying thousands of soldiers as well as heavy weapons.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the demilitarization process in the Gogra region in August. In February, the two sides completed the withdrawal of troops and weapons from the northern and southern shores of Pangong Lake in line with an agreement on demilitarization.
Each side currently has around 50,000 to 60,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive area.
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