India-China Disengagement Complete; Sweets To Be Exchanged With Troops: Report (X image @XisMoments)
New Delhi, India: India and China have completed disengagement in the Depsang and Demchok regions of Eastern Ladakh and patrolling will begin soon, said media report citing Army sources. It was added that sweets will also be exchanged with troops from the Chinese side on the occasion of Diwali today.
The sources from the Indian Army told NDTV that the verification process is on and the modalities of patrolling will be decided by the ground commanders. Xu Feihong, the Chinese Ambassador to India, told reporters in Kolkata hours later that the two countries had reached “many important understandings”.
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He said both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a very important meeting (on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia last week), and has reached important understandings. He added that the understanding between the leaders will be the guidelines for the further development of relations between our two countries.
“I hope that, under the guidance of this consensus, our relations will be moving forward smoothly in the future and they will not be restricted or interrupted by specific disagreements between our two sides,” said the ambassador.
Xu said it is natural to have differences between two neighbouring countries.
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On October 21, India had announced that a patrolling agreement had been reached for the two contentious areas of Depsang and Demchok, and the troops would return to the positions that existed before the stand-off between the New Delhi and Beijing started in 2020. The disengagement process included the dismantling of structures and the restoration of the land on which they stood to their original condition.
India and China started to lock horns in May 2020. A clash took place in Ladakh’s Galwan the next month in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action and the Chinese side also suffered losses, with the exact number remaining unconfirmed.
