New Delhi: India and China on Tuesday held major general-level talks at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), facing the Depsang Bulge or the main military standoff point in the plains in the north, amid the ongoing military standoff in eastern Ladakh. It has now entered its fourth year.
Defense sources told about the conversation between the 3 Infantry Division Commander major General PK Mishra and his People’s Liberation Army (PLA)Pla) equivalent in the form of “Regular Border Management Meetings” held regularly at battalion, brigade and division levels to “maintain security and stability” along the Line of Actual Control.
The meeting comes after again no concrete breakthrough in the 18th round of top-level Corps Commander talks, a notch above Major General talks, on April 23 at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point. Four months, as reported by TOI then.
Although the two sides exchanged “proposals and counter-proposals” in that talk, China has so far not agreed to India’s push for a withdrawal of troops in the strategically located region. Depsang Maidan and at Charding Ninglung Nala (CNN) track junction demchok As a first step towards eventual de-escalation and de-induction of over 50,000 troops deployed with heavy weapon systems in eastern Ladakh.
The biggest bone of contention is the Depsang Bulge, a table-top plateau at an altitude of 16,000 feet, where the PLA is actively blocking Indian troops about 18 kilometers inside what India considers its territory.
Defense sources told about the conversation between the 3 Infantry Division Commander major General PK Mishra and his People’s Liberation Army (PLA)Pla) equivalent in the form of “Regular Border Management Meetings” held regularly at battalion, brigade and division levels to “maintain security and stability” along the Line of Actual Control.
The meeting comes after again no concrete breakthrough in the 18th round of top-level Corps Commander talks, a notch above Major General talks, on April 23 at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point. Four months, as reported by TOI then.
Although the two sides exchanged “proposals and counter-proposals” in that talk, China has so far not agreed to India’s push for a withdrawal of troops in the strategically located region. Depsang Maidan and at Charding Ninglung Nala (CNN) track junction demchok As a first step towards eventual de-escalation and de-induction of over 50,000 troops deployed with heavy weapon systems in eastern Ladakh.
The biggest bone of contention is the Depsang Bulge, a table-top plateau at an altitude of 16,000 feet, where the PLA is actively blocking Indian troops about 18 kilometers inside what India considers its territory.