Beijing: China on Wednesday said the Chinese and Indian militaries are implementing the “resolutions” concerning the disengagement in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in an “orderly” manner. China and India have reached resolutions on issues concerning the border, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a media briefing here replying to a question on the progress of the disengagement.
“At the moment, the Chinese and Indian frontier troops are implementing the resolutions in an orderly way,” he said and declined to provide any details.
Following the key agreement firmed up between India and China, the two countries began troop disengagement at the two friction points at Demchok and Depsang Plains in eastern Ladakh on October 2.
Earlier on Tuesday, an Indian Army official said the disengagement process in the Depsang and Demchok areas of the Eastern Ladakh sector is almost over, news agency ANI reported citing its sources in defence. Armies of India and China are verifying the vacation of positions and removal of infrastructure by each other there, they said.
India-China border tensions
The ties between the two Asian giants had nosedived following a fierce clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020 that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in decades. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on October 21 had said in New Delhi that the agreement was finalised following negotiations over the past several weeks and that it would lead to a resolution of the issues that arose in 2020.
On October 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping endorsed the agreement on patrolling and disengagement along the LAC in eastern Ladakh during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan in Russia.
(With inputs from agency)