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EAM Jaishankar said both the countries had border pacts going back to the 1990s which prohibited bringing massive troops into the prohibited areas but Beijing has disregarded those agreements.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that it was no secret that the relationship between India and China was going through a very difficult phase. He said both the countries had border pacts going back to the 1990s which prohibited bringing massive troops into the prohibited areas but Beijing has disregarded those agreements.
"Right now it is no secret, we are going through a very difficult phase mainly because we had agreements with China going back to the 1990s, which prohibit bringing massive troops into the prohibited areas, they have disregarded that," he said.
"You know what happened in the Galwan valley. That problem has not been resolved and that has been clearly casting a shadow," he said, adding that relationships are a two-way street and a lasting relationship cannot be a one-way street. "We need that mutual respect and mutual sensitivity. Right now it is no secret we are going through a very difficult phase," S Jaishankar added.
India and China are locked in a years-long border dispute in eastern Ladakh. The dispute escalated in 2020 after the Chinese amassed massive troops along the LAC and entered the areas claimed by India. China has been maintaining a massive presence of troops and developing infrastructure along the border.
Earlier this week, Jaishankar in Bangkok said that India's relationship with China was going through an 'extremely difficult phase' because of what Beijing did at LAC.
India and China have signed several border agreements to maintain peace and tranquility along the LAC.
In an agreement signed on 7 September 1993, New Delhi and Beijing agreed to resolve the border situation through peaceful and friendly consultations. "Neither side shall use or threaten to use force against the other by any means...the two sides shall strictly respect and observe the line of actual control between the two sides. No activities of either side shall overstep the line of actual control," the pact said.
"Each side will keep its military forces in the areas along the line of actual control to a minimum level compatible with the friendly and good neighbourly relations between the two countries. The two sides agree to reduce their military forces along the line of actual control in conformity with the requirements of the principle of mutual and equal security to ceilings to be mutually agreed," it added.
However, Beijing disregarded this by amassing thousands of troops near LAC in April 2020.
India-China relations going through a very difficult phase, border issue has not been resolved: EAM Jaishankar
EAM Jaishankar said both the countries had border pacts going back to the 1990s which prohibited bringing massive troops into the prohibited areas but Beijing has disregarded those agreements. , India News - Times Now
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