India-China Border Disengagement Complete In Depsang And Demchok, Patrolling To Start Soon: Army Sources

PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping had endorsed the agreement on patrolling and disengagement along the LAC during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan.

File photo of PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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The disengagement process between India and China in Depsang and Demchok has been completed and the coordinated patrolling will start soon from both sides, Indian Army sources said on Wednesday.

The statecomes comes shortly after China said that the militaries of the two nations are implementing the “resolutions” concerning the disengagement in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in an “orderly" manner. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that China and India have reached resolutions on issues concerning the border.

“At the moment, the Chinese and Indian frontier troops are implementing the resolutions in an orderly way," Lin Jian said.

ABP LIVE earlier reported that under the new patrolling arrangement the Indian as well as the Chinese soldiers will be “pulled back” to the point where they used to patrol prior to April 2020 along with their vehicles, tents, semi-permanent structures and other paraphernalia.

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. The two sides reached a series of common understandings, including strengthening communication and cooperation, enhancing strategic mutual trust, holding talks between our foreign ministers and officials at various levels to bring the relationship back to sound and steady development.

The clash along the disputed border between Indian Ladakh and Chinese-controlled Aksai Chin four years ago resulted in the first known fatalities in over four decades – with at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers losing their lives.