NEW DELHI (RIA Novosti): India is concerned about China’s enactment of a new Land Boundary Law, which could have implications for existing bilateral border management arrangements, the Indian Foreign Ministry said.
“We are concerned about China’s unilateral decision to pass a law that could have implications for our existing bilateral agreements on border management, as well as on the border issue. Such a unilateral move will have nothing to do with the agreements that both sides have already reached earlier, whether on the border. issue or maintaining peace and tranquility along the line of de facto control in areas of the India-China border. We also expect China to avoid acting under the pretext of this law, which could unilaterally change the situation in the border areas of India and China, “- said in the statement of the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arindam Bagchi.
The Foreign Ministry noted that India and China have not yet resolved the border issue.
“Both sides agreed to seek a just, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the border issue through consultations on an equal basis. We also entered into several bilateral agreements, protocols and agreements to maintain peace and tranquility along the line of de facto control in the border regions of India and China,” added in a statement …
There is a long-standing territorial dispute between India and China over the ownership of a section of mountainous territory in the north of Kashmir, as well as almost 60 thousand square kilometers in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The line of de facto control, which replaces the border between countries in this region, runs in the Ladakh region. In the fall of 1962, this dispute even escalated into a border war.
A new exacerbation between India and China began in Ladakh in May 2020, when a series of conflicts between the military of the two countries took place in the Pangong Lake area, after which New Delhi and Beijing increased their military presence in the region.
In early February this year, first the Chinese, and then the Indian Ministry of Defense announced the withdrawal of troops stationed after the conflict in the region from the northern and southern shores of Lake Pangong.
Over the past several rounds of talks, troop commanders in Ladakh are discussing the disengagement process at Gogra Heights, Hot Springs and Depsang Plains.
The result of the confrontation was a cooling in relations between the countries, in particular, India canceled a number of contracts in which Chinese companies had won, banned a number of Chinese computer applications and canceled the purchase of a number of items of equipment from China.
