‘No normal bilateral relationship with China’ Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla
A solid statement coming out of India, After the Chinese PLA troops were made to budge and back off from the military standoff. The intruding Chinese had to retreat from the military standoff in the border region after the Indian Armed Forces responded effectively. While speaking at a meeting hosted by the Diplomatic Academy of Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Shringla stated that the normal bilateral ties between India and China are not possible. Until the Chinese People’s Liberation Army stops intrusions and transgressions into the Indian territory. The Indian Foreign Secretary also noted that the relationship between India and China is a complex one. The normal relationship can return between the two, only if there is a peaceful border.
“As I told our friends in China, we cannot have a normal bilateral relationship if there is no peace and tranquillity in our border areas. The relationship is dependent on the normal situation at the border,” Shringla, on a two-day official visit to Moscow, said.
“We cannot have our troops having loss of life, having a situation of transgression at the border and still go about a normal relationship?” he said.
Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter high-altitude standoff in eastern Ladakh since May last year following a violent clash in the Pangong lake areas. The border tension between the two countries flared up manifold in June last year when troops of both sides engaged in a violent face-off in Galway Valley in eastern Ladakh, in which 20 Indian soldiers were martyred and several others injured.
Last week, the two countries reached a consensus on disengagement in the North and South banks of Pangong lake that mandates both sides to “cease” forward deployment of troops in a “phased, coordinated and verifiable” manner, in a major development after a nine-month border standoff.
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