New Delhi- According to Indian government, China and India have decided to move quickly to secure the tens of thousands of troops who have been positioned along their disputed border in a protracted standoff.
During their meeting with Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, on Thursday during the ASEAN meetings in Laos, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar emphasized the importance of quickly resolving unresolved issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the lengthy Himalayan border shared by the two Asian superpowers.
From Ladakh in the west to the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims entirely, the line divides lands claimed by China and India. After a military conflict that claimed at least one life in July 2020, relations between the two nations worsened.
According to an Indian statement released late on Thursday, the two foreign ministers “agreed on the need to work with purpose and urgency to achieve complete disengagement at the earliest,” adding that border peace is necessary to restore normalcy in relations between the two nations.
In his opening remarks, Jaishankar stated that despite significant efforts on both sides to resolve the border issues, they have “cast a shadow” over India-China relations for the past four years.
According to the statement, he stated, “The state of the border will necessarily reflect on the state of our ties.” Wang emphasized that strengthening relations between China and India benefits both nations as well as other countries, according to a report from China’s official Xinhua News Agency.