India-China Corps Commander Talks Lasted For 13 Hours
India-China corps commander talks lasted for 13 hours, officials will inform top leadership today. Senior military commanders held the sixth round of talks Monday to ease tensions between India and China.
The India-China corps commander talks started in Moldo at 10 am and ended 13 hours later at 11 pm. During this time the agenda of removing the soldiers from the military LSC was discussed.
Representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs involved in the meeting today will brief senior officials about the discussions with China.
Explain that Naveen Srivastava, Joint Secretary level officer of the Ministry of External Affairs was also involved in the talks of military commander level.
Lieutenant General Harjinder Singh, commander of the 14th Corps of the Army, led the Indian contingent in the conversation.
He was accompanied by Lieutenant General PGK Menon as part of the dialogue, while the Chinese side was led by Major General Liu Lin, commander of the Southern Jinjiang region.
No information has been shared by the two sides regarding the results of the sixth round of commander-level talks. However, government sources definitely said that the withdrawal of troops is the most important to reduce tension on the LAC (Line of Actual Control) and end the deadlock and this is the agenda of the talks.
It is known that the two foreign ministers in Moscow agreed on five points to pursue military and diplomatic negotiations amid the ongoing border confrontation.
It was said that if the two countries move forward on these five points, the deadlock of LAC can be ended and peace restoration is possible on the border.
Even after this agreement, the military commander took ten days to negotiate. Apart from this, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh had talks with the Chinese Foreign Minister in Moscow itself, but there was no result in it.
Significantly, on the night of 29-30 and 31 August, Chinese troops made several infiltration attempts to remove the strategically placed Indian troops on the peaks of the southern shore of Pangong Lake.
Chinese soldiers tried to repeat the incident like Galvan Valley with sharp and pointed weapons like spears, spears, etc. but Indian soldiers foiled their intentions.