New Delhi, December 18
India and China held the 20th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) by video conferencing on Friday after a gap of over two and a half months.
At the meeting, both sides decided that they would continue to work towards ensuring complete disengagement in all friction points along the LAC in the Western Sector at the earliest.
They also agreed to hold the next (9th) round of Senior Army Commanders meeting at an early date so that both sides can work towards early and complete disengagement of troops along the LAC in accordance with the existing bilateral agreements and protocols, and fully restore peace and tranquillity, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
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India, China agree to hold next round of military talks on LAC
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Both sides agree to continue work towards complete disengagement at earliest
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Both sides agree to continue work towards complete disengagement at earliest
India and China on Friday agreed to hold another round of talks between senior military commanders to take forward the slow-moving process of disengagement on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The WMCC has ordinarily been convened twice a year since the mechanism was launched in 2012 with the aim of ensuring peace on the borders, but has now met six times since June this year, since the unprecedented crisis in Ladakh erupted in early May. This followed multiple transgressions by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and a clash in Galwan Valley mid-June that claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers.
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New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi Friday said any attack on the Communist Party of China (CPC) is an attack on people of that country and that Beijing believes in peaceful coexistence when it comes to conducting diplomacy.
In his address organised by Asia Society, a think-tank, Wang said that on issues concerning national sovereignty and territorial integrity, China is committed to international rules.
This comes at a time when India and China remain engaged in a now seven-month-long border stand-off in which both sides have lost soldiers at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.
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