Friday, 24 July 2020_Diplomats from India and China hold another round of talks over rising tensions at their contested border.
Diplomats from both sides were holding talks on Friday through a virtual meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs, a government source in New Delhi said.
Last month, 20 Indian soldiers were killed during a skirmish in the Galwan Valley, a precipitous and rocky border area that lies between China’s Tibet and India’s Ladakh regions. There were no confirmed reports of Chinese casualties. Each side blamed the other for the incident.
That was the first such deadly clash at the disputed border in the western Himalayas since 1967.
India accused Beijing of having “pre-meditated and planned” the fighting, but China said Indian troops had violated a military agreement, and attacked its troops in the Galwan valley in Ladakh.
The governments of the two nuclear armed powers are now seeking to reach an agreement on ways to pull back troops from across the disputed border.
The two sides have held several rounds of talks since then and reduced the numbers of troops in the valley, while still pouring reinforcements into the region.
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