LAC standoff | India will not accept less than bottom line in talks with China, says Jaishankar
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Talks with China on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) might take for much longer, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar indicated on Wednesday, drawing a parallel to the same army stand-off in Arunachal Pradesh’s ‘Sumdorong Chu’ in 1986 that took practically 9 years to resolve.
Adding that India and China should take a “long view” of the border dispute and not simply the “incidents” on the LAC this 12 months, Mr. Jaishankar cautioned Beijing towards dealing with India by the prism of a “third party”, in a reference to India’s shut ties with the United States.
In an unique interview to The Puucho, Mr. Jaishankar mentioned he might not expose particulars of the continuing negotiations with the Chinese facet on resolving the stand-off in Ladakh.
When requested about how lengthy the talks, which have seen eight rounds of army commander-level negotiations, would proceed, Mr. Jaishankar mentioned it was crucial to recollect the Sumdorong Chu disaster of 1986. Several years of talks had been fruitless earlier than the 2 armies, which had been eyeball to eyeball in the Tawang area, disengaged in 1995. In between, the 2 sides signed the breakthrough 1993 settlement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquillity alongside the Line of Actual Control.
Mr. Jaishankar mentioned for India, the bottom line is that China has violated previous agreements by amassing troops on the border and that if “peace and tranquillity” on the border is disturbed the remainder of the India-China relationship is affected.
“Complicated issues will take time and I will go for what is my interest and my bottom line. I mean, I will not be stampeded into accepting something which is less,” he mentioned, including that India had undertaken an “enormous military response” in response to the Chinese deployment.
He added that experiences of Chinese occupation of land in Depsang and north Pangong Tso did not set out “the totality of the ground picture fairly”.
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