China said today the situation along the LAC region in Ladakh is “stable”
Beijing:
China stressed today that there is no need to intervene with a “third party” to resolve its current conflict with India, the two neighbors having fully-fledged communication mechanisms and channels to settle their differences through dialogue.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a media availability in Beijing that China’s position on the border issue with India is “consistent and clear” and that the two countries have “seriously” implemented the important consensus reached between their leaders.
Zhao answered a question about the phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday during which the two leaders also discussed the border deadlock between India and China.
“Now the situation there (at the actual line of control) is broadly stable and controllable. China and India have full-fledged border mechanisms and communication channels. We have the capacity to resolve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, “said Zhao. .
“There is no need for the intervention of a third party,” he said, during Beijing’s first official reaction to the discussion between Prime Minister Modi and Donald Trump, which would also have included border tensions between India and China, as reported by the press agency Press. Trust of India.
President Trump said last week that he was “ready, willing and able to mediate” between the two countries. “We have informed India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to negotiate or arbitrate their raging border dispute,” said President Trump in a tweet last week.
India and China have rejected Donald Trump’s offer to mediate.
“China’s position on the border issue is consistent and clear,” said Zhao and reiterated that the two neighbors “seriously applied the important consensus” reached between their leaders.
Troops from India and China embarked on a 73-day deadlock at Doklam tri-junction in 2017.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first informal summit in April 2018 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a few months after the impasse in Doklam.
At the summit, the two leaders decided to issue “strategic directions” to their soldiers in order to strengthen communications so that they can build trust and understanding.
Prime Minister Modi and President Xi held their second informal summit in Mamallapuram near Chennai in October last year with the aim of further expanding bilateral relations.
“We have strictly respected the relevant treaty between China and India and we are committed to respecting national territory and sovereignty and security as well as to maintaining peace and stability in the border region,” said M Zhao.
His remarks came in the context of the persistent deadlock between the military of India and China on the real line of control (LAC).
Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a bitter deadlock in several areas along the effective line of control in the mountainous east of Ladakh for almost four weeks. The two countries are holding military and diplomatic talks to resolve the problem.
On May 5, the Indian and Chinese military clashed with iron rods, sticks and even resorted to stone abrasions in the Pangong Tso Lake area, in which soldiers from both sides were injured.
In another incident, nearly 150 Indian and Chinese soldiers were involved in a confrontation near Naku La Pass in the Sikkim sector on May 9.
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