Jaishankar-Wang Talks: Provocative Behaviour Of PLA At LAC Shows Disregard For Bilateral Agreements, India Tells China
India strongly raised the deployment of large number of troops and military equipment by China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
NEW DELHI: According to government sources, India strongly brought up China's deployment of a sizable number of troops and military hardware along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and expressed its concern during talks between foreign affairs minister S. Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Xi in Moscow on Friday. As the two foreign ministers struck a five-point agreement that will direct the two nations in resolving the border stalemate in eastern Ladakh, the Indian side brought up the problem of the Chinese PLA massing troops in Ladakh. The meeting, which took place on Thursday night in Moscow, lasted 2.5 hours. Jaishankar and Wang were in the Russian capital for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's foreign ministers (SCO). The conference was an opportunity for the Indian side to express its deep concern over the concentration of Chinese forces and equipment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The 1993 and 1996 Agreements were broke…