Agreement to end border standoff in Ladakh

GS Paper - II

China on 22 October 2024 confirmed that it has reached an agreement with India to end the standoff between the armies of the two nations in eastern Ladakh. Beijing said that a resolution has been reached on "relevant matters" and that it will work with New Delhi to implement these resolutions.

What

  • Over a recent period, China and India have been in close communication through diplomatic and military channels on issues related to the China-India border.
  • Now the two sides have reached a resolution on the relevant matters which China speaks highly of, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said.
  • In a major development, the central government announced that a deal has been reached on patrolling in eastern Ladakh, ending a four-year military stand-off that began after clashes between the armies in Galwan in 2020.
  • The announcement came ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia for the Brics summit, during which he could hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  • The agreement was firmed up following negotiations by the two sides over the last several weeks and it will lead to a resolution of the issues that had arisen in 2020.
  • In one of the latest such talks, last month, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks in the Russian city of St Petersburg with a focus on finding an early resolution to the row.
  • The Indian and Chinese soldiers will now be able to resume patrolling in the way they had been doing before the border face-off began and the disengagement process with China has been completed.

 

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