Officials from India and China held talks Tuesday on steps to strengthen “peace and tranquility” along their border, following a stand-off in May over troop movements.<\/p>\n
Defense and foreign affairs officials from both sides started two days of meetings in New Delhi.<\/p>\n
“The meeting deals with all issues of peace and tranquility on the border,” said Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.<\/p>\n
Chinese and Indian defense chiefs met in Beijing earlier this month and said they would work to keep tensions over the disputed Himalayan area in check.<\/p>\n
They agreed to conclude negotiations for a proposed accord on border defense cooperation, including stepping up dialogue between the two militaries.<\/p>\n
The visit by Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony to Beijing was the first such trip for seven years, as part of efforts to rebuild trust after the flare-up over the area.<\/p>\n
Delhi accused Chinese troops of intruding nearly 20 kilometers (12 miles) into Indian territory and setting up camps, triggering a three-week standoff that was resolved in May when troops from both sides agreed to pull back.<\/p>\n
The Line of Actual Control between the nuclear-armed countries has never been formally demarcated, although they have signed accords to maintain peace since the border region saw a brief Indo-Chinese war in 1962.<\/p>\n
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited India in May, and pledged with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to preserve peace on the border.<\/p>\n
India says China occupies 38,000 square kilometers (14,700 square miles) of its Himalayan territory, while Beijing claims all of Arunachal Pradesh, which is 90,000 square kilometers.<\/p>\n
Source:Agence France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Defense and foreign affairs officials from both sides started two days of meetings in New Delhi.<\/p>\n
“The meeting deals with all issues of peace and tranquility on the border,” said Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.<\/p>\n
Chinese and Indian defense chiefs met in Beijing earlier this month and said they would work to keep tensions over the disputed Himalayan area in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}