China says reached ‘resolution’ with India on contested border issues

TDT | Manama                                                      

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China said yesterday it had reached a “resolution” with India over issues related to their disputed border, after New Delhi said it had struck a deal with Beijing for military patrols along the frontier.

Beijing’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it had given its “positive approval” to a border deal, confirming a similar statement by New Delhi on Monday.

“Recently, China and India have maintained close communication through diplomatic and military channels on issues relating to the China-India border,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a regular news briefing.

“Currently, the two sides have reached a resolution on the relevant issues. China gives its positive approval to this,” Lin said.

“In the next stage, we will properly implement that resolution with the Indian side,” he said. On Monday, India’s top foreign ministry bureaucrat Vikram Misri said that “agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control”. The deal would lead to “disengagement and eventually a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020,” Misri said.

India’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said disengagement with China was “complete” and that details would come out in “due course”.

The understanding “creates a basis for peace and tranquillity along the border, which were there before 2020,” he said at a conference hosted by Indian broadcaster NDTV.