Published 20:44 IST, September 12th 2024

India-China Agree To Work With Urgency For Complete Disengagement, Says MEA

NSA Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg.

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India's National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval | Image: ani

St. Petersburg: India's National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in St. Petersburg on the sidelines of BRICS NSA meeting in Russia, the Ministry of External Affairs informed on Thursday.

The meeting comes after Doval met Russian President Vladimir Putin and shared Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's message with him over his Ukraine visit.

MEA said that Ajit Doval-Wang Yi meeting gave two sides opportunity to review recent efforts towards finding early resolution of remaining issues along LAC.

Both sides agreed to work with urgency, redouble efforts to realise complete disengagement in remaining areas, MEA said.

NSA Doval conveyed to Chinese foreign minister that peace, tranquillity in borders areas, respect for LAC essential for normalcy in ties.

Both sides must fully abide by relevant bilateral agreements, protocols, and understandings reached in past, MEA said after Doval-Wang held talks in Saint Petersburg.

The two sides agreed that India-China relationship is significant not just for two countries but also for region, world, MEA added.

India-China disengagement 75 per cent complete  

Earlier today, EAM S Jaishankar during an interaction in Switzerland's Geneva said that India-China disengagement is roughly 75 per cent complete.

Roughly 75 per cent of the "disengagement problems" with China are sorted out but the bigger issue has been the increasing militarisation of the frontier, Jaishankar said on Thursday on the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh.

In an interactive session at a think-tank in this Swiss city, Jaishankar said the Galwan Valley clashes of June 2020 affected the "entirety" of India-China ties, asserting that one cannot have violence at the border and then say the rest of the relationship is insulated from it.

The external affairs minister said both sides have been engaged in negotiations for the last four years to find a solution to the outstanding issues.

"Now those negotiations are going on. We made some progress. I would say roughly you can say about 75 per cent of the disengagement problems are sorted out," he said at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

"We still have some things to do," Jaishankar, who is on a two-day visit to Switzerland, said.

With inputs from PTI

Updated 21:37 IST, September 12th 2024