MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 18th July, 2022) India has once more requested China to withdraw Chinese language troops from disputed territories close to the India-China border in japanese Ladakh, newspaper Occasions of India reported on Monday.
The sixteenth spherical of prime army talks on the border settlement was held on the Chushul Moldo border publish within the japanese a part of the Indian territory of Ladakh on Sunday morning and ended within the night of the similar day, the newspaper reported.
Official data on the outcomes of the negotiations has not but been introduced, in line with the report.
India calls on China to take away its army personnel and dismantle their tent camps on two disputed sections of the border, the place they continue to be since clashes that happened between the 2 international locations in 2020. It additionally needs a halt in Chinese language army flights close to the disputed sections and the return to the Indian aspect the appropriate to patrol the border in disputed areas, the newspaper stated, citing unnamed supply.
The newspaper cited the supply as expressing optimism concerning the outcomes of negotiations on the disengagement of troops in one of many disputed areas, the place small army items of as much as 50 army personnel from each side are in direct contact.
In 2019, the Indian authorities introduced its choice to strip the Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir area of its particular standing and cut up it into two union territories Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The choice provoked a harsh backlash from neighboring Pakistan, which stated that New Delhi was mistreating the area’s Muslim inhabitants that was combating for its rights. India, in flip, has accused Islamabad of backing separatists, who allegedly undermine the area’s safety.
India controls the southern a part of the Kashmir area, whereas Pakistan and China occupy its northwestern and northeastern components, respectively.
