Ladakh row: Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, NSA Ajit Doval maintain talks

By PTI

NEW DELHI: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are understood to have held talks on Friday specializing in the japanese Ladakh row and the geopolitical implications of the disaster in Ukraine.

Wang arrived in Delhi on Thursday night within the highest-level go to between the 2 nations after the ties got here below extreme pressure following the army standoff in japanese Ladakh that started almost two years in the past.

The Chinese overseas minister arrived at Doval’s workplace for talks at round 10 am.

There is not any official phrase on the assembly.

Wang is scheduled to satisfy his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar after his talks with Doval.

The border difficulty is known to have figured prominently within the assembly between Wang and Doval as they’ve been serving because the Special Representatives (SR) for boundary talks between the 2 nations.

Doval and Wang held a prolonged telephonic dialog in July 2020 and the talks centered on bringing down stress in japanese Ladakh.

India and China have been holding high-level army talks to resolve the face-off within the remaining friction factors in japanese Ladakh.

Both sides withdrew troops already from among the friction factors following the talks.

On March 11, India and China held the fifteenth spherical of high-level army dialogue to resolve the pending points within the japanese Ladakh area.

However, there was no ahead motion within the talks which had been aimed toward resolving the remaining points.

The border standoff between the Indian and Chinese militaries erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent conflict within the Pangong lake areas.

The face-off escalated after the Galwan Valley clashes on June 15, 2020.

As many as 20 Indian troopers and an unspecified variety of Chinese troops had been killed within the clashes.

Both sides step by step enhanced their deployment by dashing in tens of hundreds of troopers in addition to heavy weaponry.

As a results of a collection of army and diplomatic talks, the 2 sides accomplished the disengagement course of final yr within the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and within the Gogra space.

Each facet at the moment has round 50,000 to 60,000 troops alongside the Line of Actual Control (LAC) within the delicate sector.