Jaishankar invites ‘some progression’ made by India, China in disengagement procedure–

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday recognized “some progress” made by India and China in the disengagement procedure including that it has actually opened the opportunity of “other steps” to be taken by the 2 sides.

“In terms of India and China, yes, we have made some progress. You know, our relations were very, very disturbed for reasons all of you know. We have made some progress in what we call disengagement, which is when troops were very close to each other, with the possibility that could lead to some untoward incident,” Jaishankar claimed while replying to an inquiry throughout a communication with the Indian diaspora in Brisbane, Australia.

He included, “There are very large numbers of Chinese troops deployed along the Line of Actual Control who were not there before 2020. And we, in turn, have counter-deployed. There are other aspects of the relationship, which also got affected during this period. So clearly, we have to see after the disengagement, what is the direction we go. But we do think the disengagement is a welcome step. It opens up the possibility that other steps could happen.”

Last month, India stated that it had actually gotten to an arrangement with China to disengage soldiers along the Line of Actual Control, noting a significant development in the boundary concern that began in 2020.

The international preacher better claimed that the assumption after Prime Minister Narendra Modi satisfied Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia last month was that “both the national security advisor and myself, we would meet our counterpart. So that’s where things are”.

With inputs from PTI