As India and China seek to restart ties, based on a relative calm Border management. The conversations also prepared land for another meeting of the special representatives, Ajit Doval and Wang Yi, which India will organize later this year.
A team led by the Joint Secretary of Mea (Oriental Asia) Gourangano DAS, who traveled to Beijing this week for what was the 33rd meeting of the work mechanism for consultation and coordination in the border affairs of India-China (WMCC), comprehensively reviewed the LAC situationEmphasizing peace and tranquility in the border is essential for the soft development of general bilateral relations. China said the meeting was held with a “future vision approach” and both parties agreed to take “concrete and effective” measures to maintain peace and tranquility in border areas.
According to Indian reading, they exchanged views on the early resumption of cooperation and cross-border exchanges, even in trans-borders and kaillash-sangarvar yatra rivers. Interestingly, India Reading did not mention the resumption of direct air services, something that India had agreed “in principle” during the visit of Vikram Misri’s Foreign Secretary Misri to Beijing in January. China is interested in the resumption of direct flights, but India apparently does not want to hurry. However, official sources, the technical authorities are working to achieve an updated framework for resumption.
“The two parties explored several measures and proposals to give effect to the decisions taken during meeting 23 of the special representatives on the limit issue of India-China in Beijing in December 2024 and to advance in effective border management. The two parties agreed to maintain and strengthen the diplomatic and military mechanisms relevant to this purpose,” said the Indian government, and added that both parties will work to make “preparation for” preparation for “preparation” For special mechanisms. ”
Special representatives had met in Beijing in December 2024, after a 5 -year -old gap that resulted from the 2020 border confrontation in East Ladakh. The confrontation seemed to have finally ended with an agreement in October last year to complete the process of disconnection of troops in the remaining areas, namely, Depsang and Dechok. This was followed days later by the first bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in 5 years in Kazan, on the banks of the BRICS summit. Modi said in a podcast earlier this month that his meeting with XI had led to a return of normality at the border and expected confidence to return in the relationship slowly but safely.